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Re: untabify - last call for objections


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: untabify - last call for objections
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:40:28 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:

>> I don't care much about coding styles conventions, but I care about
>> consistency.  Moving away from the default style of GNU indent in gnulib
>> seems a bit inconsistent to me.  I can't find anything about tab vs
>> space in the coding standard though.  Thoughts?
>
> I'm not sure `indent` is being kept up to date TBH.

There was a release earlier this year though.

> This is my ~/.indent.pro for coreutils.
>
> -Toff_t
> -Twchar_t
> -Tsize_t
> -TFILE

Those seems uncontroversial and could potentially be made default in
indent, right?  It probably has a built-in list of other type already,
those are just missing?

> -nut

This is the new mode under discussion here.

> -l80

Seems uncontroversial too.

> Should each project ship an indent file to
> match their particular coding standard?

I think that would be useful.  Note that 'maint.mk' provides an 'indent'
rule for gnulib applications that uses maintainer-makefile.

/Simon




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