Timo Korvola wrote:
On Saturday 10 April 2010 16:42:14 Rafal Kolanski wrote:
Also, I would like to ask, what is the official stance on how wide a
tab is in sawfish sources?
Tab stops are every 8 characters, as has been the de facto industry
standard for a few decades now. It is of course different from the
block indentation step.
Sigh. This should have been obvious, I don't know why I didn't try 8, my
default setup for some people's C code is tab stop 8 soft tab stop 4.
Sorry. Setting ts=8 in my editor makes everything align.
I do not recall if we have a policy whether tabs or spaces should be
preferred in indentation. Old code tends to use tabs, but generally
tabs are a nuisance.
I think policy for these things is good, prevents funny whitespace-only
diffs where the text looks identical on the terminal and in your editor,
but spaces got swapped with tabs somehow. For all my personal projects,
I avoid them (tabs). I recognise, however, that sawfish is not my
personal project and I will simply set my editor to conform with
whatever the policy is, which currently seems to be "make it look like
the rest of the file you're editing" :)
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Rafal Kolanski.
