[PATCH] STYLE: Initial draft of coding style document
Austin Clements
amdragon at MIT.EDU
Sun Feb 5 20:42:05 PST 2012
Quoth David Bremner on Feb 03 at 8:50 pm:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:01:15 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 2012 4:38 PM, "Tomi Ollila" <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> wrote:
> > >
> > > > +
> > > > +* Indent is 4 spaces with mixed tabs/spaces and a tab width of 8.
> > > > + Tabs should be only at the beginning of the line.
> > >
> > > So, after initial indentation (with tabs) there should not be further
> > > tabs? We'll be using the former instead of the latter in these 2 below?
>
> Ah, I only meant to explain what whitespace-mode complains about, namely
>
> <space><space><space><space><tab>x=1;
>
> as opposed to
>
> <tab<space><space><space><space><tab>x=1;
>
> I'm not sure it's that important, but apparently if it stays in the
> style guide it needs rewording.
Any indentation style this difficult to explain can't be a good idea.
How about,
* Indent is 4 spaces with mixed tab/spaces and a tab width of 8.
(Specifically, a line should begin with zero or more tabs followed
by fewer than eight spaces.)
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