[haiku-development] Re: Coding guidelines
- From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 14:01:07 +0200
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.
N>
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