You can make use of the GNU indent tools to format your C source file. I personally use indent.exe with the following options: indent -bap -bbb -bl -bli0 -bls -cbi0 -ci4 -cli4 -i4 -ip0 -lp -nbad -nbbo -n bc -ncs -ncdb -nhnl -npcs -nprs -npsl -sob -ts4 %1 Rgds, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Rigby-Jones" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [PIC]: coding style > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott Dattalo [SMTP:scott@DATTALO.COM] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 12:07 AM > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > > Subject: Re: [PIC]: coding style > > > > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > > > > > > > > > At the end I think I'm going to adopt the following: > > > > And now I think you'll see the opinions come spewing in from all angles... > > > > > - only tabs, no spaces. 4-spaces per indentation level. > > > > I personally prefer spaces and no tabs. Why? because there is no standard > > tab spacing, but 8 is the most common. However, if you display your > > 4-space tabs as 8-space tabs, the document will look very messy. (Not to > > mention, the piclist archive of your tabbed files will look horrible). > > > > OTOH, If I know your files are formatted with tab equal to 8 spaces, I can > > run expand/unexpand (unix utilities) to fix it. > > > > Scott > > > Another one of those things that has arguments for and against I guess, but > I prefer tabs simply because it's so much faster to tidy up any indenting > and generaly moving the cursor around. Any decent editor should let you set > the number of "spaces" per tab, although I would have to agree about the > archive problem. 8 space tabs are way too large IMO and make the program > messier rather than neater and easier to follow, 3 or 4 spaces seems a good > compromise. > > Regards > > Mike > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body