Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from David E. Wheeler > # on Saturday 27 September 2008 20:45: > >> Um, can we have --indent-columns 4 please? And no tabs? Also, --- >> maximum-line-length=78 is probably the minimum it should be, not 72. > > So, we can't use tabs because emacs didn't bring enough for everyone. > Fine. I accepted that years ago at which point I adopted 2-space > indent. If we *could* use tabs, you could look at them however you > like, because they would be adjustable. Sigh.
I don't believe it, it's 2008 and we're still arguing about hard tabs. It doesn't work. It requires too much careful coordination and per-project editor tweaking. I set 4-character tabs to work on one project that's doing the "use hard tabs as configurable indentation" trick and then another project uses hard tabs, but they mean 8-character tabs (like in the perl source). It's just not worth it. 4-character indentation, no tabs. It's simple. It's common. It's hard to screw up. Then we don't have to rewrite every patch we get in. > no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no > no no > > At least, until we upgrade to widescreen SMTP. You have complete control over where your mail client wraps. If you can have 40 terminal windows open you can have a slightly wider mail client. -- Stabbing you in the face for your own good.
