> You could always use eclipse instead of vim :-p
Well that won't really change the fact that the code is formatted horribly and every time I view a diff or any code at the command line I will see an unreadable mess, not to mention indenting or moving the cursor around the screen will have unexpected results. I could also turn off visible tabs in vim, but that would only hide the fact that every action I take is potentially changing the indentation of the code as an unintended side-effect. As I said, pedantic, but we are software developers. It is our job to be pedantic. Anyway, I have made the epic change and I apologise to the revision control gods for changing about half of the lines in the entire project in a single commit, but hopefully it will be much easier to deal with now. Please install the Bazaar plugin and set your text editors appropriately. I have put some advice under doc/platform, which I will repeat here: Set your text editor to convert all tabs into spaces. In Eclipse, Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Insert spaces for tabs. Install bzr-text-checker <https://launchpad.net/bzr-text-checker> to prevent you from accidentally committing code with spaces. To do this, type: $ mkdir ~/.bazaar/plugins$ bzr branch lp:bzr-text-checker ~/.bazaar/plugins/text_checker Then create a file called ~/.bazaar/rules with the following contents: [name *]tabs=failnewline_at_eof=failcheck_eol_type=lfcheck_eol=fail You may also like to add trailing_whitespace=fail and/or long_line_length=78, long_lines=warn, but that is a personal preference (we don’t require files not to have trailing whitespace or short lines, though you should try to avoid having too many long lines). Note that I have removed the trailing_whitespace and the long line requirement. They will be problematic to enforce, as I think Eclipse leaves trailing whitespace by default (grr). So I don't mind if you leave lines with spaces at the end; you should probably just use the smaller rules file I put in above.
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