Re: [hpoj-devel] indentation and such

[Andreas F. <fe...@ep...>]

Hi,

> > I introduced quite some tab diffs, because the original source code
> > did use almost no indentation, making it very hard to read. I use only
> > tabs (no spaces except accidentally) which should expand to whatever the
> > editor has been set to. (8 spaces if vi default is used). I am a bit

Personally, I started to never use tabs. My Editor (and Emacs should
also be able to handle it that way ;-) ) can be set to use spaces
instead of tabs, and then also inserts spaces for automatic 
indentation. The advantage of using spaces only is that it looks the 
same in every editor, without having to puzzle with tab settings and 
the like.

[...]
> I played around with GNU indent a little tonight, and perhaps the best thing
> to do is run "indent -kr -i8" on ieee12844.c with your code changes.  It's not

I think using "indent " would be a convenient way to achieve a somewhat 
consistent code layout. However, you should be aware of some problems
which might occur:
- Developers should *always* run indent with the same parameters before
  checkin; otherwise, you can never make useful diffs between versions.
- The best way would be to install indent as a filter for checkin; 
  I dont know if this is possible at the sourceforge CVS server, and
  some people dont like this either because the code may look 
  different when you check it out again ;-)

Just IMHO ....

Regards

        Andreas

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