[Freeciv-Dev] Re: coding standard patch

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:04:27AM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Reinier Post wrote:
> > > To carry things a little farther, emacs and indent will automatically
> > > indent using tabs (or automatically strip tabs).But under the system
> 
> Only now do I notice that Raimar did not include my ban against tabs in
> his patch.
> 
> I'm against tabs. They can be nice if used properly, but I find that to be
> mostly a theoretical perspective, since most of the time they just screw
> things up. Like viewing the source code in a browser - too many tabs and
> you need a 21" in 1600x1400 to see any of it, or (heavens forbid) scroll
> to the right. There is also always someone who doesn't use the correct tab
> size, and tabs also screw up indentation when reading diffs (the new
> indentation looks wrong).

I agree with you that tabs are bad, BUT indent uses tabs. Only
new(est) version of GNU-indent has an option to use spaces instead.

If you really want to have them gone I have no problem doing a s/\t/       /
over the tree in regular intervalls.

        Raimar

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