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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard Indentation etc.
Message-ID: <2495@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 19 Dec 88 20:22:43 GMT
References: <663@htsa.uucp> <832@husc6.harvard.edu> <2450@ficc.uu.net> <888@quintus.UUCP>
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In article <888@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> In article <2477@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >In article <879@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> >> 8 columns is _way_ too big for an indentation increment.

> >Who said 8 columns? I said a tabstop. That can be anything you want.

> No it can't, not and expect other people to make sense of your files.

Yes it can, if you write the program in the expectation that tabs will
change. I change tabs on the fly as I edit my program depending on nesting
depth, line length, and other considerations. Thus I don't do things like:

	code				/* Comment */
	code code			/* Comment */
		code			/* Comment */
		code code code		/* Comment */

> Nope, if I have to _read_ your files, I'm going to use 'indent'.

Well, let me know when you actually see some.
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