Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!encore!pierson@mist From: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Imposed indentation standards don't work Message-ID: <4520@xenna.Encore.COM> Date: 29 Dec 88 21:33:45 GMT References: <3229@ingr.uucp> <253@athertn.atherton.com> <9166@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: news@Encore.COM Reply-To: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson) Organization: Encore Computer Corp Lines: 15 In-reply-to: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) In article , wjc@ho5cad (Bill Carpenter) writes: >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? Sorry, indenting is done with whatever Emacs inserts for me after I've tuned it to my indentation style. Doing it by hand with either spaces or tabs is simply unnecessary work that distracts from the real job. -- dan In real life: Dan Pierson, Encore Computer Corporation, Research UUCP: {talcott,linus,necis,decvax}!encore!pierson Internet: pierson@multimax.encore.com