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

[Eduardo I. I. <zi...@su...>]

You can user "cvs diff -b" or "cvs diff --ignore-space-change" when 
doing comparisons.

Colin Sampaleanu wrote:

> We should probably just take a real vote. Doing it one way or another is 
> not going to appeal to some people in the group, but everybody can work 
> with either setup; so there's no way we'll ever have everybody happy, 
> and a vote is the democratic thing (the spoiler in this is of course 
> that you and Juergen produce most of the code).
> 
> Spaces would break comparisons depending on the actual tool used. A lot 
> of diff tools can ignore whitespace. CVS itself will consider the two 
> versions different.
> 
> 
> Rod Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Yes, Juergen's the one responsible :-)
>>
>> I would prefer to keep tabs. I know I'm in a minority, but I hate spaces.
>> Also if we switch wouldn't it would break all revision history 
>> comparisons.
>> But certainly there are a few files untidy, with very long lines.
>>
>> I'm not a big fan of parameter alignment in general.
>>
>> Rgds
>> Rod
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "jürgen höller [werk3AT]" <jue...@we...>
>> To: <spr...@li...>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Formatting in the face of tab 
>> usage
>>
>>
>> I see, you refer to the parameter aligning in new lines, which I do 
>> have set
>> in my IDEA code style. That's indeed messing up things for other tab 
>> sizes,
>> when usign hard tabs.
>>
>> So we should probably not use parameter aligning as long as we stay with
>> hard tabs then... But it just looks nicer, IMO - if the tab size 
>> matches ;-)
>>
>> Juergen
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: spr...@li...
>> [mailto:spr...@li...]On Behalf
>> Of Colin Sampaleanu
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:15 PM
>> To: spr...@li...
>> Subject: [Springframework-developer] Formatting in the face of tab usage
>>
>>
>> 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
>>  
>>
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