El 10/12/09 08:56, Martyn Russell escribió:
> On 10/12/09 11:46, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:16 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
>>> On 10/12/09 10:57, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> I still find that indenting quite cumbersome, emacs has automatic
>>>> indent-on-tab support and doing anything custom is extra-painful,
>>>> since
>>>> there are some circumstances where emacs thinks it's ok to reindent
>>>> some
>>>> line (pressing ';' at the end of the line for example), I generally
>>>> like
>>>> the glib/gtk+ approach (no tabs), since alignment will obviously be
>>>> correct, and it's easy for current editors to do that.
>>>
>>> That's a good point. Actually, I spoke to Tim Janik about this and how
>>> it works for GTK+ and also Mitch Natterer for how they doing things on
>>> GIMP (which has a very clean code base) and they both recommend spaces
>>> exclusively. This way:
>>>
>>> - the alignments are always correct according to the coding style
>>> - diffs don't look weird because of the initial \t
>>>
>>> I am definitely convinced after talking to Tim and Mitch that we should
>>> use purely spaces. What do others think?
>>
>> No thanks.
>>
>> It would also introduce a complete diff, instead of just a big diff.
>
> It does anyway changing everything the way you want it, so that point
> is irrelevant.
>
>> I think it's insane to so drastically change things.
>
> We are doing this anyway even with just the trailing whitespace changes.
>
>> I also find all-spaces to be more work (I used it for the coding on
>> tumbler, among other things, and it was far from being fun to keep the
>> code-flow correct. Compared to tabs for indentation at least).
>
> Actually, your editor is really the problem here then. We can't move
> forward on this without SOMEONE updating their editor anyway.
>
>> I think not only should code be cute to look at, it should also be fun
>> and fast to write.
>
> Again, this is an editor thing. At least with Emacs, using the tab
> button automatically does all this for you.
>
>> All-spaces isn't fun, and certainly isn't fast to
>> write. It's rather pedantic, and more of an ideology for the all-spaces
>> fanbase than a pragmatic something that really works.
>
> It isn't more pedantic than tabs and spaces in special cases which is
> how you want it. In fact it is far simpler.
>
> Personally I would rather all tabs or all spaces to make things
> simpler, but all tabs simply doesn't work here.
>
> Also, what does all space fanbase etc have to do with anything? I am
> talking about what logically makes more sense and is less problematic
> for editors/patches/maintenance/etc.
>
Well I like tabs more than spaces for indenting, since that way every
developper can choose how tabs are displayed. Personally, I set them at
4 spaces, but some other people prefer 8... To me the mixed space/tabs
(tabs for block indenting + spaces for argument indenting) is really the
way to go.
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