Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!att!whuts!homxb!ho7cad!ho5cad!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Imposed indentation standards don't work Message-ID: Date: 27 Dec 88 21:36:45 GMT References: <3229@ingr.uucp> <253@athertn.atherton.com> <9166@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: nuucp@ho7cad.ATT.COM Reply-To: ho5cad!wjc Followup-To: comp.lang.c Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 In-reply-to: eric@snark.UUCP's message of 22 Dec 88 02:40:53 GMT In article eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: > In general, I code in what I think of as "BSD/Allman" style with 4-space > indent: Given the chance, I always object to indents termed in numbers of spaces. If you had said "with 1-tab indent", I would have internalized that as "my favorite number of spaces per tab when I look at code". Are there still text/code tools thought to be reasonable which do not allow you to set your own sizes for tabs? Even if we can't solve where the curly braces go, world peace, and other hard problems, let's at least write this one off. Indenting is done with tabs, right? Not spaces, and not combos of spaces and tabs, right? -- -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill