On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:27:44AM +0200, Tels wrote: > > I know it took me a while to figure out the weird "4 space, but use > > tabs opportunisticly" indentation style in the C source. It would have > > saved some time had my editor just figured it out and matched styles. > > As I said, hat step could be automated by running all patches through an > automatic converter before applying them. That way the editor (kate? vim? > whatever?) and the submittor (indend style, tab preference, indend > accidents) do not matter.
Except there are some files where tabs DO matter. MakeMaker. Tests. Makefiles. We could do it for just the C files... but automated code manipulation makes me queesy. Maybe its just a side effect of being a Perl programmer and assuming its fraut with peril. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES! http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml
