From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3A2C433C1 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:00:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CB8619B4 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229773AbhCZH7g (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:59:36 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0186.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.186]:52784 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229528AbhCZH7Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:59:24 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 445 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:59:24 EDT Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by smtpgrave08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A132B1802CCDB for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:51:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omf10.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B281802A07B; Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.159] (unknown [47.151.137.21]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf10.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 164B52351F7; Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:51:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <2af5ea06f8ebd20e0d3bdd51bd8a44f5fdad08d9.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] streamline_config.pl: Add softtabstop=4 for vim users From: Joe Perches To: Steven Rostedt , Masahiro Yamada Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Andrew Morton , "John (Warthog9) Hawley" Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:51:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20210325095039.7202d675@gandalf.local.home> References: <20210322213806.089334551@goodmis.org> <20210322214032.293992979@goodmis.org> <20210324095417.49c6377b@gandalf.local.home> <20210325095039.7202d675@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout02 X-Stat-Signature: yiew45t8hn63jayzix9m7w1ekgn33n4o X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 164B52351F7 X-HE-Tag: 1616745112-554895 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 09:50 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:20:13 +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > > The root cause of inconsistency is that > > you mix up space-indentation and tab-indentation. > > I do not know if it is a standard way either. > > This is the default way emacs has edited perl files for as long as I can > remember (back to 1996). It became my standard of editing perl files just > because of that. For everything else, I use tabs. [] > > For example, scripts/checkpatch.pl uses only tabs, > > which I think is more robust. > > Probably because Joe probably uses vim ;-) I generally use emacs. Maybe Andy Whitcroft uses vim. For checkpatch.pl I just followed Andy's style. get_maintainer.pl uses the 4 spaces then 1 tab style like Steven uses. perl code can be pretty long left to right so using smaller indentation seems useful there.