On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:50, Kevin Ballard wrote:
The spacing in MacPorts is a bit non-standard. We have mostly tabs,
but there's a bunch of spaces in there as well, and it causes for
some interesting indentation.
I propose that all future edits be standardized at either 2-width
or 4-width soft tabs (as in, spaces). I'd even be willing to
convert all existing tcl files to use spaces instead of tabs in one
batch, though that could leave indentation issues (but those can be
fixed by hand the next time the file is edited).
Is there any reason to keep tabs? Or any other comments?
Is there any reason why we shouldn't
- have tabs at the beginnings of lines to provide indentation
- use spaces within a line when we want to do something like align
columns
That would seem the most logical solution to me.
Using only spaces seems not so good to me, because
- spaces uses 2 or 4 times as much disk space as a tab
- spaces need 2 or 4 times as many presses on the delete key as a tab
to remove in my editor
- I can't use my editor's tab width setting to see the amount of
indentation I want to see
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