Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
On Jan 4, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:41 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: S'OK, just thought it was funny I'd been doing it backwards all this time: Actively been replacing tabs with spaces. :-) That explains why your patches always seemed to be so weird to me LOL spacing-wise :-) Nobody ever said... laughs/rolls eyes/sighs I just figured you were using British tabs instead of American ones. ;P -- Jim Nasby[EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
Simon Riggs wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Minor request for clarification: > > > > I read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4 > > > > spaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces. > > > > > > No, it does the opposite (or I would hope so anyway). > > > > Sorry, the mistake was in a reference to entab. It now reads: > > > > entab converts spaces to tabs, used by pgindent > > S'OK, just thought it was funny I'd been doing it backwards all this > time: Actively been replacing tabs with spaces. :-) It was a little more complex because entab does conversion to/from tabs, but pgindent uses it in the "to tabs" mode. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDBhttp://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:41 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > S'OK, just thought it was funny I'd been doing it backwards all this > > time: Actively been replacing tabs with spaces. :-) > > That explains why your patches always seemed to be so weird to me LOL > spacing-wise :-) Nobody ever said... laughs/rolls eyes/sighs -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
Simon Riggs wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Minor request for clarification: > > > > I read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4 > > > > spaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces. > > > > > > No, it does the opposite (or I would hope so anyway). > > > > Sorry, the mistake was in a reference to entab. It now reads: > > > > entab converts spaces to tabs, used by pgindent > > S'OK, just thought it was funny I'd been doing it backwards all this > time: Actively been replacing tabs with spaces. :-) That explains why your patches always seemed to be so weird to me spacing-wise :-) -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Minor request for clarification: > > > I read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4 > > > spaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces. > > > > No, it does the opposite (or I would hope so anyway). > > Sorry, the mistake was in a reference to entab. It now reads: > > entab converts spaces to tabs, used by pgindent S'OK, just thought it was funny I'd been doing it backwards all this time: Actively been replacing tabs with spaces. :-) -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
Tom Lane wrote: > "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Minor request for clarification: > > I read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4 > > spaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces. > > No, it does the opposite (or I would hope so anyway). Sorry, the mistake was in a reference to entab. It now reads: entab converts spaces to tabs, used by pgindent -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDBhttp://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Minor request for clarification: > >> I read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4 > >> spaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces. > >> > > > > No, it does the opposite (or I would hope so anyway). > > > > > > Sure looks that way in the code. In fact it detabifies and then > retabifies, from what I can see. > > cheers > > andrew > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDBhttp://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
Tom Lane wrote: "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Minor request for clarification: I read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4 spaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces. No, it does the opposite (or I would hope so anyway). Sure looks that way in the code. In fact it detabifies and then retabifies, from what I can see. cheers andrew ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Re: [HACKERS] Tabs or Spaces
"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Minor request for clarification: > I read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4 > spaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces. No, it does the opposite (or I would hope so anyway). regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
