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Tab width
Judging from the source files the libspf2 developers use a tab with of 4. I'm
not saying that it's wrong, but the universal standard is 8 and using
anything else causes some problems since it's not so easy to tell all
possible editors what tab width to use - not to mention the terminal. Which
explains why the output of spfquery -help is so ugly. Personally I prefer to
avoid tabs altogether, partly because they cause lines in patch files not to
line up well.

But if you want to help people like me to help you, you can put these lines in
comments at the very top of every file:

-*- tab-width:4; indent-tabs-mode:t; c-basic-offset:4; -*-
vi: set tabstop=4 noexpandtab:

(You can put the vi line near the end instead if you wish.)

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Magnus Holmgren holmgren@lysator.liu.se
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Re: Tab width [ In reply to ]
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Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> Judging from the source files the libspf2 developers use a tab with of
> 4. I'm not saying that it's wrong, but the universal standard is 8 and
> using anything else causes some problems since it's not so easy to tell
> all possible editors what tab width to use - not to mention the
> terminal.

That's why source code should never contain tabs for the purpose of
indentation. Please expand them to spaces!

> Which explains why the output of spfquery -help is so ugly.
> Personally I prefer to avoid tabs altogether, partly because they cause
> lines in patch files not to line up well.
>
> But if you want to help people like me to help you, you can put these
> lines in comments at the very top of every file:
>
> -*- tab-width:4; indent-tabs-mode:t; c-basic-offset:4; -*-
> vi: set tabstop=4 noexpandtab:
>
> (You can put the vi line near the end instead if you wish.)

Don't do that. Avoid tabs for the purpose of indentation at all costs.

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