Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Developer Guidelines (first draft)

[Berend de B. <be...@po...>]

Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

> I don't understand why people think Emacs is so great
> and on the other hand it is not able to properly handle
> indentation.

Please no editor war, this has nothing to do with Emacs.


> And then someone else will modify your code and put tabs
> (because everyone, except people using Emacs, uses tabs)
> and then we get ugly layout again.

Just not true, please read the url.


> Furthermore the advantage of tabs is that each user
> can set them to their favorite size. With spaces you
> can't.

Every editor??? A problem for tabs again if not so.


> Or better, Emacs is open source, right? So why this problem
> has not been fixed over the years? 

Because the problem is not Eamcs, but tabs and of course this is all
settable, please read the url.


Groetjes,

Berend. (-: