Re: [Vim-latex-devel] coding standards?

[Mikolaj M. <mi...@wp...>]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:20:20AM -0500, Benji Fisher wrote:
>      What are our coding standards?
> 1. I think Srinath once asked me to use "tabs, not spaces" for 
> indenting.  Does this mean that I should set 'ts' to 2, instead of 
> setting 'sts' and leaving 'ts' at 8?

Some time ago Srinath asked me to add this settings to modelines in lS
files:

ts=4:sw=4:noet:fdm=marker
> 2. Some files have change logs at the top.  Is this left over from 
> pre-CVS days, or do we want to update these?

It is rather leftover. I would rather stick with CVS logs.

> 3. Should we try for consistent time stamps?  If so, is there a script 
> for updating them?  Or should we let CVS take care of that, and stop 
> cluttering the diff files with changed time stamps?

I am using lastchange.vim by Srinath (it is somewhere on vim-online).
I'd like to save them. It is useful with playing off-line before
commiting changes to repository.

> 4. Does anyone feel strongly about the number of columns and 'wrap' 
> versus 'nowrap'?

I know. Long lines are ugly but in Vim it is easier to maintain single
looong line than many short lines. Of course if I am a minority...

Mikolaj