On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Michael Schwingen wrote: > David Brownell wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 December 2009, Antonio Borneo wrote: > > > >> Should every file in the project be converted to TAB width = 4 ? > >> > > > > NO!!! > > Why not? > > I do not like tab=4 myself,
That's part of it. I have extremely limited tolerance for that particular problem in the style guide. It plays poorly with standard system settings ... there's no "stty" equivalent, and it's been decades since playing with tabstops was felt to be a good solution to any problem. We aren't in the age of mechanical typewriters any more. (Remember those? And "typing pools" of underpaid women to reproduce documents by hand?) If one wants "indent=4" that's a different issue. Kluging it with "tab=4" gives the worst of all outcomes. > but if the styleguide says to use that > tabwidth for OpenOCD, then every file should conform to that. One key word is "guide" ... as in, not a hard-and-fast rule. Whereas there *is* a hard-and-fast rule that TTY output has tabs every eight stops. I'm not going to support efforts to enhance that particular conflict with reality. - Dave _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
