On Oct 12, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Mark Brouwer wrote:
But I'm afraid I don't understand the current formatting as well,
as it
seems that indentations are always tabs now and with my current tab
setting of 8 this results in a different indentation from the java
files. As result of this a lot of stuff is beyond the 80 characters a
line which seemed to be a 'soft' rule.
I guess I misunderstood your initial message regarding the indentation.
I thought you were suggesting tabs were preferred over the 2-space
indentation, which was fine by me. However, now that I've re-read your
original message, I see that you were just referring to the
inconsistency.
I'm not certain why the inconsistency was originally in there, but I
would like to fix it to adhere to some "accepted" practice. I also
agree
that the 80 char limit is important, but I didn't want to make
unnecessary
non white-space changes at that stage (ie, fix indenting, then fix
wrapping).
I wanted to take advantage of the ignore-white-space diff option for
these
changes (ie, "svn diff -x -w" should show no changes).
So, what would you suggest is the preferred indentation practice (ie,
tabs, spaces, a mix)? Is there a practice that is accepted by the
entire community? I suspect there's lots of opinions.
Frank
