Re: [Nano-devel] on the topic of style (indentation)

[Eitan Adler]

On 4 April 2014 14:12, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014, at 22:16, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> what style is the code supposed to be using ?  it's not GNU that's for sure.
>> the indentation is pretty inconsistent, and using tab stops of 8 doesn't make
>> them all "disappear".

I think its just inconsistent: I don't see any rule that works.


> Not all, but most.  From my first readings I inferred that the
> indentation step was four, but the tab size eight.
>
>> it'd be nice if it was just tabs for indentation ...
>
> That would indeed be nice -- I would be okay with a standard
> tab size of four (-T4).  Chris?

This is buggy.  If you use tabs for indentation then it doesn't matter
what tab size you pick.  It should Just Work.

> But... it would be cool to implement modelines first.  :)
>
>     https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27524

Useful but not necessary.



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Eitan Adler