Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Coding styles (not cranky mode)

[Peter Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxx>]

Mark Nettle wrote:
> 
> I'm a great fan of using tab's to indent. Then (at risk of starting an
> vi vs emacs vs ? war)
> 
> $ cat ~/.exrc
> :set sw=4
> :set ts=4
> :set ai
> $
> 
>         Mark


I believe tabulators should be forbidden in source code. 
Generally and everywhere in the (programming) world.
There is nothing like seeing code that was indented with tab width 2
with your default width of, say, 8.
Also, there doesn't seem to be a big tradition of putting comments at
the head of ones code setting the tabulator width.

Means that for example cvs could expand tabulators to 8 spaces
(maybe it does that already?).
But people programming python probably think differently :-) 

But if there is a 'freeciv-coding style' defined, it sure would be useful
if people contributed configs/scripts like the one above for their 
favorite editors( "M-x c-freeciv-mode" ).

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