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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tabs and spaces
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:18:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110421021825.GA23373@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235e29d-6cbb-445b-9b6f-4e174c03ba8f-mfwitten@gmail.com>

Michael Witten wrote:

> You just need an editor that [...]

which many contributors don't have (or haven't configured that way).
Really.

[...]
> However, with a tabstop of 2, it looks like this:
>
>   if (foo && bar && baz &&
>       qux && quux) {
>     ...
>   } else if (quuux(quuuux, quuuuux,
>         long_expresion_comes_here(quuuuuux))) {
>     ...
>   }
>
> Notice that your `qux && quux' line (which follows the method we both like)
> remained nicely aligned, but your `long_expression_comes_here' line has
> moved back so much that it doesn't even satisfy the `right margin' rule
> anymore.

Oh, I still think a tabstop of 2 is insane (for various reasons, some
explained in the thread you mentioned).

No matter --- Junio will use --whitespace=fixup to convert your spaces
to tabs anyway.  Just thought I could give some survival tips.

Regards,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-20  2:53 [RFC 0/5] Date Mode: Add --time-zone; deprecate --date=local Michael Witten
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 1/5] Light refactoring of date infrastructure Michael Witten
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL Michael Witten
2011-04-21 22:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-22 14:08     ` Dates in Commits and other issues of style (Re: [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL) Michael Witten
2011-04-25  1:26       ` Miles Bader
2011-04-25  3:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-25 10:45           ` Jakub Narebski
2011-04-25 18:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-22 14:36     ` [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL Michael Witten
2011-04-22 15:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 3/5] Date Mode: Implementation Michael Witten
2011-04-21 22:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 4/5] Date Mode: Documentation Michael Witten
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 5/5] Date Mode: Tests Michael Witten
2011-04-21 22:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-23  3:42     ` Michael Witten
2011-04-23  5:06       ` Michael Witten
2011-04-23  3:45     ` Time zone option name (Re: [RFC 5/5] Date Mode: Tests) Michael Witten
2011-04-23  5:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-23  3:59   ` [RFC 5/5] Date Mode: Tests Michael Witten
2011-04-20  6:43 ` [RFC 0/5] Date Mode: Add --time-zone; deprecate --date=local Jeff King
2011-04-20 14:21   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-21  1:50     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-21  2:14       ` Michael Witten
2011-04-21  3:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-21  4:09           ` Michael Witten
2011-04-20 14:22   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-20 14:22   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-20 14:23   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-21  0:07     ` Tabs and spaces (Re: [RFC 0/5] Date Mode: Add --time-zone; deprecate --date=local) Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-21  1:51       ` Tabs and spaces Michael Witten
2011-04-21  2:18         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-04-21  3:15           ` Michael Witten
2011-04-21  3:25             ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-21 10:46               ` Alex Riesen
2011-04-21 12:57                 ` Michael Witten

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