On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 09:50 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:20:13 +0900 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The root cause of inconsistency is that > > you mix up space-indentation and tab-indentation. > > I do not know if it is a standard way either. > > This is the default way emacs has edited perl files for as long as I can > remember (back to 1996). It became my standard of editing perl files just > because of that. For everything else, I use tabs. [] > > For example, scripts/checkpatch.pl uses only tabs, > > which I think is more robust. > > Probably because Joe probably uses vim ;-) I generally use emacs. Maybe Andy Whitcroft uses vim. For checkpatch.pl I just followed Andy's style. get_maintainer.pl uses the 4 spaces then 1 tab style like Steven uses. perl code can be pretty long left to right so using smaller indentation seems useful there.
