Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/04/09/14:48:17
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Richard Slobod wrote:
>> The only potential problem I can see is that, for example, someone working
>> with 2-space-wide tabs might tend to have some lines that are over 80
>> characters wide when the tabs are expanded to 8 spaces, but that's a minor
>> problem, at least IMHO. It's not like the source will be completely mangled
>> when viewed with a different tab size.
>
>The problem I was referring to is that the indentation gets completely
>scrwed up if the sources are vewed with a different setting of a tab
>width, or printed on a printer.
The indents get shrunk or grown, but that's a far cry from "completely
screwed up". We're talking about the difference between
void sayhello(void) {
printf("Hello\n");
}
and
void sayhello(void) {
printf("Hello\n");
}
Neither of those looks screwed up to me.
As for printing, if your editor doesn't support directly printing the source
using the current tab size, you can always pass it through a filter.
>> Also note that 1) this isn't likely to be an issue if you're the only one
>> who ever works with the source files in question and 2) it's trivial to
>> replace the tabs with the desired number of spaces if you should need to.
>
>The replacement with spaces should be done by whoever changes the tab
>size.
Not necesarily. If you want to make certain that anyone viewing the code
knows what tab size you used, it's easy enough to stick a comment to that
effect in the file.
Also note that there's no reason why two people working on the same source
code file necesarily have to view it using the same tab size; the preferred
indent spacing does, after all, vary by the individual. As I said, you need
to be a bit careful about where you break long lines in that case if you
want to maintain a consistent maximum line length, but I really don't think
that that's a major problem.
>But the number of editors which allow to indent with spaces
>only is much smaller than the number of editors which allow to change
>the tab size, and people tend to forget to do it, even if it is
>supported by the editor.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying here.
- Raw text -