Indention - why spaces?
Hi kernel hackers,
yes, i know http://www.purists.org/linux/#indent .
my question is just: what's the matter of NOT using tabs instead of spaces? i think there must be one, otherwise everybody would use tabs.
I know the thing about "more than 3 levels of indention *suck*" (but i'm not sure if i have really understand this yet in my coding style, but who cares..), but i like tab characters more than spaces, simply because it removes all the discussion about the best indention width. some people use ~180 character-consoles, some use 80 ones.Whats the reason of not giving the freedom to choose whatever he likes?
i don't want to change anything, i just like to know WHY people use spaces. are they somehow unportable? (i don't think so)
Quoted 14 lines · Felix Domke
Hi kernel hackers,
yes, i know http://www.purists.org/linux/#indent .
my question is just: what's the matter of NOT using tabs instead of spaces? i think there must be one, otherwise everybody would use tabs.
I know the thing about "more than 3 levels of indention *suck*" (but i'm not sure if i have really understand this yet in my coding style, but who cares..), but i like tab characters more than spaces, simply because it removes all the discussion about the best indention width. some people use ~180 character-consoles, some use 80 ones.Whats the reason of not giving the freedom to choose whatever he likes?
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i don't want to change anything, i just like to know WHY people use spaces. are they somehow unportable? (i don't think so)
spaces are a workaround for broken editors. But Linux developers have a "use the best tool for your job" approach so we don't care :)
As someone pointed to a paper by a mozilla hacker in this thread here's another advice: don't use mozilla to send non mime-encoded patches, they even implemented their brain-dead tab expansion policy in their mailer.
*sigh*
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As someone pointed to a paper by a mozilla hacker in this thread here's another advice: don't use mozilla to send non mime-encoded patches, they even implemented their brain-dead tab expansion policy in their mailer.
Uhh.
I wasn't aware of that. Maybe someone should wake up the veck that committed the changeset by giving them a fair horrorshow tolchock on the gulliver with the old hammer?
:)
No reall that _is_ a braindead idea.
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