Re: [Flex-devel] Bad source code formatting in flex sources

[Will E. <wl...@us...>]

Joe/Aaron,

The tab/space confusion is probably not something intentional. Yes, it
should be cleaned up, and there is some infrastructure in the Makefiles,
but it's not been thought about in a long time, so who knows how good it
is.

On Wednesday,  8 October 2008, 10:37 am -0700, Aaron Stone <aa...@se...> wrote:

> I noticed this, too, but didn't want to disrupt the code too much.
> 
> Will is the maintainer, and John was the last most active coder -- any  
> thoughts on this?
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Joe Krahn wrote:
> 
> > I noticed that most of the code uses tabs instead of spaces, but a lot
> > of code seems to use spaces for indentation that aligns with a tabstop
> > size of 4. I see that this is actually due to a Vim hint placed at the
> > bottom of Flex's source files that includes "expandtabs tabstop=4".
> >
> > So, this line results in vim users (including myself) to slowly  
> > corrupt
> > the formatting style, which is unexpanded tabs. I like an indentation
> > level of 4 spaces with expandtabs, but I think it is better to keep  
> > tab
> > stops at the default of 8. Either way is fine with me, as long as it  
> > is
> > consistent. (It would be a lot worse if this was Python source.)
> >
> > Joe Krahn
> >
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