[Springframework-developer] Formatting in the face of tab usage

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

I was looking at DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser, and it's clear that 
whoever formatted it (Juergen I guess) is using an editor with hard tabs 
set to 2 characters (not the more common 4 or 8). I say this because for 
some method calls, the continuation line lines up method args, but only 
if tabs are set to 2. If they are 4 or 8, the continuation line is _way_ 
over to the right.

While I'm not a big fan of hard tabs, as per our discussion last fall, I 
can live with them. But what this means is that any continuation lines 
need to be simply one or more tabs farther in than the line before it. 
If you format lines so that you use hard tabs to line up with some 
non-tab text in a line above, this will completely mess up for other 
people using different tab settings. Ditto with adding some real spaces 
(with or without tabs) at the beginning of the line. Essentially _all_ 
indentation has to be based only on tabs.

Colin