Re: [Gnash] Tabs vs. Spaces

[Rob Savoye]

strk wrote:

> > I noticed that in our recent actionscript class files (the ones
> > starting with a capital letter under server/), instead of tabs, we are

  These were generated by a shell script, and I'll be honest, I didn't 
pay that much attention to the indentation, I just wanted the generated 
code to be correct. I use "gnu" style in emacs, and just let c++mode 
handle indenting. My slightly tweaked GNU style settings are in the 
appendix of the Gnash manual.
(http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/manual/gnash.html#codestyle)

  c++-mode enforces the 4 character indent. You'll get TABS for 8 
character spans, and 4 spaces for much indenting. I'm sorry it's a pain 
in gedit, but using c++-mode in emacs makes all this so easy I don't 
really pay much attention to indenting. In a crunch, you can type it up 
however you want in gedit, and run "indent-region" on the buffer in 
emacs to set it right.

> > in most of the rest of gnash code, we simply use tabs - could we agree
> > this will be the standard for all of our files? If so, would someone
> > like to (or does anyone mind if I) go through and "fix" all these
> > 4-space-tabs by turning them into '\t' characters?

  In many of the original files, tabs were forced to be 8 spaces, which 
often had code lines wrapping across multiple lines of the window. I do 
prefer a somewhat more compact style.

        - rob -