On Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:04:53 +0200
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2022, Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 17/12/2021 00:12, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> >>> my $kernelversion;
> >>> @@ -468,7 +306,7 @@ while ($ARGV[0] =~ m/^--?(.*)/) {
> >>> } elsif ($cmd eq "Werror") {
> >>> $Werror = 1;
> >>> } elsif (($cmd eq "h") || ($cmd eq "help")) {
> >>> - usage();
> >>> + pod2usage(-exitval => 0, -verbose => 2);
> >>
> >> Why the strange indentation here? This file is far from pretty, but
> >> that makes it worse. (Other places too).
> >
> > Sometimes beauty requires cooperation. You can help it in your pager.
> > If it's less, then try `-x 2`, `-x 4`, etc.
>
> In kernel, tabs are 8 characters.
>
> See Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
>
>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>
I am a heretic then.
Except for the initial dogma, I understand and agree with the rationale
in coding-style.rst.
Only what if I have stared at the screen not for 20 hours, but for
40 hours? Now I want to have indentation even deeper, of 16 spaces.
And how do I get this having 8 spaces here and there instead of tabs?
The system begins to fall apart.
The misleading statement is that tabs are 8 characters long. No. They
are exactly 1 character long. And that's ASCII 9.
Cheers,
TW
