Re: Tabs and spaces

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:18, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Michael Witten wrote:

quoted

You just need an editor that [...]

which many contributors don't have (or haven't configured that way).
Really.

to which I already said: "if your text editor can't do that, then any
style of indentation/alignment is going to be painful."

[...]

quoted

However, with a tabstop of 2, it looks like this:

  if (foo && bar && baz &&
      qux && quux) {
    ...
  } else if (quuux(quuuux, quuuuux,
        long_expresion_comes_here(quuuuuux))) {
    ...
  }

Notice that your `qux && quux' line (which follows the method we both like)
remained nicely aligned, but your `long_expression_comes_here' line has
moved back so much that it doesn't even satisfy the `right margin' rule
anymore.

Oh, I still think a tabstop of 2 is insane (for various reasons, some
explained in the thread you mentioned).

That's not really the point, though, is it.

No matter --- Junio will use --whitespace=fixup to convert your spaces
to tabs anway.

Good!

That means I can be satisfied with having written sane patches, and
Junio can be satisfied with having forced the insane use of tabs. It's
a win-win :-D