[Simulavr-devel] Script to count tab spaces in source files

[ThomasK]

Hi,

I've commited now a script to count all tab spaces from source files in 
simulavr workspace. Goal is to reduce step by step tab spaces from 
source files.

Why? Usually developers use different editors, as they like. And also 
different settings. And one of such setting is the size of tab space. So 
a good indented (and readable and understandable!) source code on one 
developer look terrible for an other. AND this guy will start changing 
the indentation again. The result is: we get changes only in whitespace! 
If this guy makes at first such changes and commit this (and write this 
also in commit comment!), then it's easy to filter. But this isn't so in 
every case and it's more hard to review changes, more hard to maintain 
code and to understand it and so one. (sure, there are reasons for tab's 
but not for using indentation by tab space character!)

So, it's better to use SOFT-Tabs! Simulavr uses for this a tab space of 
4 characters.

And this script should help to check and indentify tabs and to remove 
it. Simply call "./tab-check.py" in a workarea. There are 2 command line 
options: -h for help and -d for "detailed", means it lists all source 
files with tabs and how much tabs are into. Without options it lists 
only the total of files and tabs.

cu, Thomas