Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!xanth!ames!oliveb!pyramid!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Imposed indentation standards don't work Message-ID: Date: 30 Dec 88 15:57:05 GMT References: <3229@ingr.uucp> <253@athertn.atherton.com> <9166@smoke.brl.mil> Organization: Network 23 AI Research Group Lines: 18 In-reply-to: eric@snark.UUCP's message of 22 Dec 88 02:40:53 GMT In article , ho5cad!wjc 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? Well, if (you're using an editor sufficiently literal-minded that it doesn't automatically indent to the right mix of tabs and spaces && the editor doesn't have a re-indent-C-statement function) maybe it is, yes. On the other hand, if you're using emacs... Please, no flames about how not everybody uses emacs and 8-space tabs either; situations like this are what expand(1) is for and diff(1) can be told to ignore whitespace-only differences. All those extra spaces take up space! -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) Email: eric@snark.uu.net CompuServe: [72037,2306] Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718