On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:18, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> You just need an editor that [...]
>
> which many contributors don't have (or haven't configured that way).
> Really.
to which I already said: "if your text editor can't do that, then any
style of indentation/alignment is going to be painful."
>
> [...]
>> However, with a tabstop of 2, it looks like this:
>>
>> Â if (foo && bar && baz &&
>> Â Â Â qux && quux) {
>> Â Â ...
>> Â } else if (quuux(quuuux, quuuuux,
>> Â Â Â Â long_expresion_comes_here(quuuuuux))) {
>> Â Â ...
>> Â }
>>
>> Notice that your `qux && quux' line (which follows the method we both like)
>> remained nicely aligned, but your `long_expression_comes_here' line has
>> moved back so much that it doesn't even satisfy the `right margin' rule
>> anymore.
>
> Oh, I still think a tabstop of 2 is insane (for various reasons, some
> explained in the thread you mentioned).
That's not really the point, though, is it.
> No matter --- Junio will use --whitespace=fixup to convert your spaces
> to tabs anway.
Good!
That means I can be satisfied with having written sane patches, and
Junio can be satisfied with having forced the insane use of tabs. It's
a win-win :-D
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