Re: proposal: remove contradictory indentation directive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:40:13PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:43:22PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Please don't add the "tab-width: 4" specifier.
> > Specifying a tab-width at all in a new file with "indent-tabs-mode: nil"
> > is a contradiction.  The latter says there should be no TABs, yet
> > the former says "when there are, give them width 4."  Coding style
> > guidelines are universal in their recommendations to stick with 8-byte
> > TAB stops, independent of whether you actually use TAB or spaces.
> 
> Agreed, good idea.

  my .vimrc defines tabs to be aligned on 8 characters boundaries.
i guess i never saw the problem myself, 

  agreed,

Daniel

-- 
Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/
Daniel Veillard      | virtualization library  http://libvirt.org/
veillard@xxxxxxxxxx  | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine  http://rpmfind.net/

--
Libvir-list mailing list
Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list

[Index of Archives]     [Virt Tools]     [Libvirt Users]     [Lib OS Info]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Big List of Linux Books]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]