On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Robert Cummings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 19:37 +0000, Stut wrote:
> >> On 28 Feb 2008, at 19:17, Wolf wrote:
> >>> Jason Pruim wrote:
> >>>> My editor automatically replaces like 4 spaces with a tab... Is
> >>>> there a reason not to use tabs instead of spaces? :)
> >>> I use spaces since when I indent with 4 spaces it is significantly
> >>> easier to read the code then with 4 tabs...
> >>>
> >>> 4 spaces are before this
> >>> 4 tabs are before this
> >>>
> >>> Pretty easy to follow code that does
> >>> {
> >>> {
> >>> {
> >>> {
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Versus the alternative, especially with the character wrapping in vi
> >>> and other text editors.
> >>>
> >>> At least, that's IMO
> >>>
> >>> YMMV
> >> Except that if I inherit your code and I find it easier if it's
> >> indented to 8 spaces you've taken that choice away from me. Tabs are
> >> configurable on nearly all editors that exist in the world. If yours
> >> doesn't let you change the tab width, get a new one. But if you don't
> >> care about people who might end up working on your stuff, keep using
> >> spaces. Just hope you never change your mind.
> >
> > It's almost a standard across the industry to use spaces. But hey, if
> > you wanna take away my choice to use spaces whenever I work on your code
> > down the very long line, that's fine. I'm just gonna use my JOE editor
> > to fix them and purify any mixed tab/space indentation. If your editor
> > can't do that then you should get a better editor ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob.
>
> I use tab's in all my code, and replace them with spaces when
> posting/mailing for legibility.
>
> couldn't imagine ever hitting space 4/8/12/16+ times to write a line of
> code when i can just tab/shit+tab to indent.
>
>
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I can hit tab and shift/tab too and it puts in spaces for me.
The reason I prefer spaces over tabs is because in my experience fonts
on different platforms and sizes seem to render tabs slightly off. So
on some font combinations my code lines up fine, while on others it
doesn't. Perhaps it is something stupid I'm doing. At work I use
monaco 14 point. At home I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono ~8 pt. Aside
from that I could care less about this holy war. ;)
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