Re: [Rails-devel] XML and Java file formatting

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

In a standard setup of Eclipse the formats for .java files should be set 
correctly from Rails-format.xml automatically.

For .xml I checked the setup the preferences of the Rhino add-ons manually 
again and it is set to tabs.

I have no specific preference for spaces/tabs (but if I am forced to choose I 
prefer tabs), however I strongly prefer if adherence to a decision ;-)

Stefan


On Friday, October 07, 2011 04:02:59 pm Erik Vos wrote:
> In my previous mail I mentioned a Perl XML formatter that I have just
> written on the fly and committed to the repository (well, I had written
> such a script before, but could not find it).  I have used it to format
> some recreated Tiles.xml files, and will keep using it for that purpose
> (perhaps for other XML files too, if needed; but XMLBuddy seems to work
> the same).
> 
> On the details, I have settled on the format of the generic Tiles.xml file,
> as it has recently been reformatted by Brett:
> - for indentation: tabs, no spaces (I loathe tabs, but see no point in
> starting an argument about that),
> - newlines only, no CRs (to achieve that on Windows, formatxml.pl uses
> binmode).
> Can we try to standardize this way? I often see redundant whitespace-only
> differences in commits, which is a waste.
> 
> Redundant whitespace-only differences are also often seen in Java source
> code commits. Here I would also propose to standardize on the currently
> most frequent usage, which is:
> - for indentation: spaces, no tabs (after all, in this way I have written
> the majority of the code, and Stefan does it similarly.  I notice that
> Brett uses tabs).
> - newlines only (I don't think that it matters for Java compilers, but this
> is how Eclipse is doing it even on my Windows machine. Brett's machine is
> adding CRs, as it seems to me).
> Please note, that my Eclipse is set to convert all tabs to spaces on saving
> Rails Java files.
> 
> This all is no problem as long as we work on different code packages, but
> some files have several contributors by now.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Erik.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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