[haiku-development] Re: Coding guidelines
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 13:59:56 +0200
On 2010-05-08 at 14:01:07 [+0200], Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 8 May 2010 13:58, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 8 May 2010 01:16, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 05/07/2010 03:50 PM, Markku Hyppönen wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been asked to change few files to follow the coding guidelines.
> >>
> >> Document says that indent should be set to four spaces
> >> and that a line must not have more than 80 columns but in the first
> >> example indents seems to be mainly 8 character and there's also couple
> >> of lines exceeding 80 columns.
> >>
> >> It seems examples code is not valid, right?
> >>
> >>
> >> If you are referring to the sample code under "Indenting and white space"
> >> in...
> >>
> >> http://www.haiku-os.org/development/coding-guidelines
> >>
> >> ...then you are pointing out the same problem already reported in ticket
> >> #5901 by Stippi.
> >>
> >> One of the sysadmins responded that " a \t is interpreted as 8 spaces and
> >> this cannot be changed" and closed the ticket as invalid, but this is
> >> incorrect.
> >>
> >> At least in the particular case of the Haiku website, it is possible to
> >> change the number of spaces per tab stop, and the solution was given in
> >> comments 2 and 3 of the same ticket:
> >
> > Changed that, does not work.
>
> Also, looking from the docs:
> http://qbnz.com/highlighter/geshi-doc.html#setting-tab-width, Genshi
> will replace the tabs with spaces (not sure if that would be only
> within a div), which would also be wrong.
>
> Resolution is correct.
I don't agree. It's highly confusing. The last resort solution would be to
dump the <code> auto-layout and layout the coding style page code examples by
hand.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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