Spacing issues

[James Berry]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:50 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> The spacing in MacPorts is a bit non-standard. We have mostly tabs,  
> but there's a bunch of spaces in there as well, and it causes for  
> some interesting indentation.
>
> I propose that all future edits be standardized at either 2-width  
> or 4-width soft tabs (as in, spaces). I'd even be willing to  
> convert all existing tcl files to use spaces instead of tabs in one  
> batch, though that could leave indentation issues (but those can be  
> fixed by hand the next time the file is edited).
>
> Is there any reason to keep tabs? Or any other comments?
>

Personally I prefer anarchy over regulation.

Other than a lack of consistency, has anybody experienced real  
problems with the way things are? (Yes, I understand that with tabs  
spacing can get a bit wonky if one person's editor is set to 4  
characters per tab, while another has theirs at 8 spaces, and that  
spacing when files are cat'd to a terminal at 8 spaces can look funny  
too... but is consistency worth the price of conformity?)

James


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