[Gllug] vi indenting

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Wed Dec 19 12:01:30 UTC 2001


On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:02:43AM +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 09:48, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> > texts, then sure, indent with spaces, but I've yet to see a single
> > valid argument (including jwz's) for indenting code with anything
> > but tabs. 
> 
> I agree 100%. Anyone using anything to indent other than tabs should be
> shot. Space signifies separation, tabs signify layout. You can move
> tabs. Tabs are fantastic.
> 
> People who use two spaces _and_ don't cuddle braces are the worst kind
> and produce the most unreadable, messy code. That's not opinion, that's
> fact*, you write better code when you use tabs (i.e., ASCII#9, not the
> tab button to issues sequences of spaces).

ok, if we're all having a vote, then this seven-year vim veteran is a
two-space brace cuddler. :)

I think that makes 3 for the hard tabbers, and 2 for the softies.

Pete
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