[haiku-development] Re: StyledEdit

On 9/4/07, HOST Computing <HOST.HAIKU@xxxxxx> wrote:
> that's true, i missed to set gedit to 4 space tabs. but this leads to the
> question why using tabs at all instead of configuring your editor in a way
> that it would replace tabs with spaces? it would look in all editors the same
> and you would notice a miss alignment in a second...

B_LETS_NOT_OPEN_THAT_CAN_OF_WORMS

My personal opinion is that using spaces to indent code is *extreme*
bad taste, and I blame it squarely on Richard Stallman and his forcing
of the "GNU style" upon GNU projects. I'm not even set on using
monotype fonts to read/write code as I used to be, but don't touch the
tabs! :)

Let the tabs remain there, using spaces only makes any kind of sense
on braces/parenthesis-rich languages such as LISP, where you'd need a
20" monitor  set to a really high resolution just to visualise real
life code that's indented by tabs. And I'm really measuring my words
here, because I love LISP.

When writing C-ish code, one will pry tabs from my cold, dead hands.

1TBS FTW!!1!


(still ill,)
A.

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