Re: indenting with tabs

[Dan Keys <dnkeys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I know this isn't the subject, but how do I unsubscribe from this list.
Thanks and I apologise for jumping in on top of this subject thread.

On Feb 17, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote:

> Karl Dahlke writes:
> > A downer on tabs if you go 5 or 6 levels in,
> > is that even a modest line gets cut into many pieces by the 80  
> > column limit,
>
> The Linux kernel exceeds that 80-column limit in many places,
> and it is not too annoying to sighted users with 80-column
> displays _if_ it does not happen with too many lines.
>
> It's when most of the lines in a function exceed the limit
> or when 10 lines in a row do that it becomes too annoying.
>
> I'm a sighted user with an 80-column display.  (I use the
> Linux in text mode on a old, small monitor.)
>
>
> > and that's pretty goofy.
> > I know, I know, properly structured code doesn't go
> > 5 or 6 levels in, I know, but the code that I write in a hurry,
> > that I'm not paid to write, sometimes does that.
> > That's just the way it is.
> >
> > Another problem with the tabs, assuming the sighted person might  
> > have the
> > freedom to change the spacing thereof, is that tabs are also used
> > in the middle of a line, to push a short comment off to the right.
> > This will get mucked up if the user changes tab = 4 for a lesser  
> > indent.
> > Well, you know, I don't think people change their tab settings
> > very often, so I'm not going to worry about that.
> > The benefits of single-char tabs on the left kinda win the day, I  
> > think.
> >
> > So here is my revised .indent.pro file for comment.
> > I would like to get this right, or at least reasonably satisfactory
> > to a wide majority, then get on with my life.
> > As you see, I had no luck getting -ci0 to work.
> > That's the second "problem" with indent in only 20 minutes.
> > Guess everyone just runs indent -gnu and doesn't check these  
> > things out.
> > Well, with its faults, it's still the best program for the job,
> > kinda like democracy.
> >
> > // leave blanklines alone!
> > -nsob
> > -ncdb
> > -nbad
> > -nbap
> > -nbbb
> > // Measure levels of indenting - use 8 spaces = one tab
> > // The sighted user can set tab to anything he likes,
> > // and I don't have to listen to a mix of tabs and spaces, or many  
> > spaces,
> > // if I want to discern the indent level.
> > -ut
> > -ts8
> > -i8
> > -bli0
> > -cbi0
> > -nlp
> > // I really want -ci0, but that doesn't work!
> > // So I'm settling for ci3, which acts like -lp when an if statement
> > // is involved, and those are the ones that are usually long anyways.
> > -ci3
> > -ip0
> > -pi0
> > -cli0
> > -di2
> > // Braces are set by the coding standards of the linux kernel
> > -br
> > -brs
> > -cdw
> > -ce
> > -bs
> > // Breaking long lines.
> > -l80
> > -hnl
> > -psl
> > -nbbo
> > // Inserting spaces - usually I don't want it
> > -nprs
> > -npcs
> > -ncs
> > // can't prevent the space in switch (x)
> > -nsaf
> > -nsai
> > -nsaw
> > // the space in while(x--) ; is a good thing
> > -ss
> >
> > Karl Dahlke
> >
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