Re: Kawa Code Formatting

[Chris Bitmead <chris at bitmead dot com>]

That's very interesting. I always wondered why I always have so much
indenting problems between editors. I use emacs myself, but never
realised this. (I have tabs set to 4).

I would have thought it sensible to either use tabs or spaces, either
one providing good formatting in other editors.

Per Bothner wrote:
> 
> Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> 
> > I was browsing the kawa code and I notice the fomatting re tabs and
> > spaces doesn't seem consistent. The result is it looks a bit of a mess
> > in my editor. It might be worth running the source through some sort of
> > formatter.
> 
> It's consistent, from a Unix/Emacs point of view.  I.e. tabs are
> always 8 spaces, and Emacs generates a combination of tabs and
> spaces to properly indent things.  Kawa code will not indent
> properly unless you have 8-character tab stops.
> 
> You can argue about this convention, but it is more-or-less
> the standard convention for GNU code (i.e. a slight modification
> of the GNU C/C++ convention to handle Java).
> 
> In my previous job we agreed on a different indentation convention,
> but disagreed on use of tabs.  It seems in the PC world, tabs
> are a thing of user preference, and identation is one tab per level.
> This is very different from the Unix world, where tabs are almost
> always 8 spaces.  (Of course Emacs can be programmed to do the
> desired thing, and that is what we ended up doing.  However, other
> tools are a different matter, using using 8-space tabs makes things
> very "wide".)
> 
> Another reason I'm loath to run Kawa code though a re-indenter
> is that it makes it difficult to compare different versions
> of a file.
> 
> I'm not absolutely opposed to changing the identation and tabbing
> conventions used in Kawa - but as long as I'm still writing over
> 90% of the code, it doesn't seem to make much sense.
> --
>         --Per Bothner
> per@bothner.com   http://www.bothner.com/~per/

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