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headers Platonides | 9 Aug 2012 13:24

For a review tool, we want to spot "spaces instead of tabs", so we
should use an uncommon tab size.
I vote for 7 spaces.

Regarding how to calculate the line-width (for the 80-100 convention), the
way my old editor used to do it made the most sense to me: Consider a tab 1
character (because it is).

That also gives the most flexibility in indenting/outdenting blocks without
having to worry frequently about it being too long for the 80-100
convention.

The downside of that approach is that a block with 40 characters per line
in a block that is indented 8 times may appear to be longer than a block
that is not intended at all and has a 100 characters per line (e.g. if your
editor shows tabs as 8 spaces, 8 * 8 + 40 = 104).

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Platonides <platonides <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> For a review tool, we want to spot "spaces instead of tabs", so we
> should use an uncommon tab size.
> I vote for 7 spaces.
>
>
Gerrit already shows this very clearly by showing the red tab symbols.

This is enabled by default and can be changed by setting Differences >
Preferences > Show Tabs.

Le 09/08/12 13:24, Platonides a écrit :
> For a review tool, we want to spot "spaces instead of tabs", so we
> should use an uncommon tab size.
> I vote for 7 spaces.

Just replace whitespaces by meaningful characters, should be easy to
implements in any code review tool.

--

-- 
Antoine "hashar" Musso

On 13/08/12 06:24, Antoine Musso wrote:
> Le 09/08/12 13:24, Platonides a écrit :
>> For a review tool, we want to spot "spaces instead of tabs", so we
>> should use an uncommon tab size.
>> I vote for 7 spaces.
> 
> Just replace whitespaces by meaningful characters, should be easy to
> implements in any code review tool.

You mean like the "show tabs" option in Gerrit? From a diff page,
click "Preferences" in the second-level menu at the top of the screen.

-- Tim Starling

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