At 09:39 19/06/2002 +0100, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> > -----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:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > 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,

Uhm.. any decent editor also provides facilities to tidy up indenting
_even if you don't use tabs_. EditPlus can indent or de-intent blocks
of data with a single keypress, regardless of whether you use tabs or
spaces, also allows you to do vertical selection, etc. :)

G.

>  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
>
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