Re: [Springframework-developer] Any sort of defined policy w/rega rds to tab/space usage and indentation?

[Lars F. <lar...@gm...>]

Maybe you should give IDEA a try ...

> Well, it does and it doesn't. That is, there is no way on a project by 
> project basis to set the tab key to spit out tabs or spaces when you press
> Tab to indent. And there is no easy way to switch back and forth; you 
> actually have to go to two separate places in the preferences. There is 
> also no easy way to switch the defined tab/indent size, only via the 
> preferences. Actually, if Eclipse is set for spaces, there is no way to 
> even spit out a hard tab.   This all basically means you have to use one 
> worksapce for your projects that use spaces for indents, and one for 
> your projects that use tabs.
> 
> Anyways, while I personally don't like them, I respect everyone's right 
> to like them, and I understand the history here :-). I just wanted to 
> know what the policy was...
> 
> 
> Kopylenko, Dmitry wrote:
> 
> >I also use tabs and Eclipse supports them very well ;-)
> >
> >Dmitriy.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Rod Johnson [mailto:rod...@in...] 
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 3:37 AM
> >To: Colin Sampaleanu; jue...@we...
> >Cc: Spring Developers
> >Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Any sort of defined policy
> >w/regards to tab/space usage and indentation?
> >
> >
> >The use of tabs is historical. I'm in the minority of people who use
> tabs,
> >so the original code base had tabs and I still use them. I know most
> people
> >in open source projects hate tabs, so we might eventually need to change
> >this.
> >
> >We did consider the use of Jalopy before check in at one point.
> >
> >I'd prefer not to mess with the formatting process before 1.0 unless we
> >really need to.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Rod
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Colin Sampaleanu" <col...@ex...>
> >To: <rod...@in...>; <jue...@we...>
> >Cc: "Spring Developers" <spr...@li...>
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:14 PM
> >Subject: [Springframework-developer] Any sort of defined policy w/regards
> to
> >tab/space usage and indentation?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I notice that most of the codebase in Spring uses hard tabs as opposed 
> >>to spaces for indentation. From looking at some comment text which 
> >>does have some embedded spaces, as far as I can tell the assumption is 
> >>that tabs equate to 4 chars, although most of the code itself does not 
> >>seem to make this assumption?
> >>
> >>Is there any sort of project policy or guideline on this? i.e. 
> >>something like 'all code must use hard tabs, and align elements only 
> >>with tabs', etc.? I can hopefully work with any policy, but I'd just 
> >>like to know if one exists... (although if I am forced to use hard 
> >>tabs I would actually have to set up another Eclipse workspace, right 
> >>now my tab key puts out spaces).
> >>
> >>fwiw, I have personally found that hard tabs are somewhat of a 
> >>disaster (or at least a problem) in many team environents. In my 
> >>teams, it's generally the one rule we apply with no exceptions, "no 
> >>hard tabs". The problem is that while hard tabs have the ideal benefit 
> >>of allowing users to indent to whatever size they like, in practice 
> >>people seem to not have the discipline to stick to using tabs only, or 
> >>their editor of the moment doesn't allow them to set the tab size to 
> >>something else easilly, so spaces creep in. Once that happens to any 
> >>extent, the code looks broken to anybody else using another tab size.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Colin
> >>    
> >>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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