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From: Ted Ts'o on 18 Jul 2010 05:30 On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:10:09PM +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > > FWIW that way will show the parameters unaligned to anyone using a > different tab length. There is one way to align such lines properly: As Randy said, the One True Tab Stop Length is 8. I don't think that's going to change anytime soon. You might as well complain that things don't look right if you like to use a font with variable width characters... - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Artem Bityutskiy on 18 Jul 2010 05:40 On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 03:15 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > Actually, what my code use is tabs with a tab stop of 8 followed by > enough spaces (< 7) to align function parameters and to align > open/close parenthesis in C expression line wrap. Yes, I also like and use this style. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Krzysztof Halasa on 18 Jul 2010 18:00
Ted Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> writes: > As Randy said, the One True Tab Stop Length is 8. I don't think > that's going to change anytime soon. I hope we will be able to eventually remove this limitation. There is nothing technical in it, except deficiency of the editors. Nice to see emacs can handle it. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |