[Vala] Coding standard: indentation?

[Michel Salim <michel sylvan gmail com>]

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Hi all,

All the Vala code I've seen so far use 8-space indentation, with Tabs
not converted to spaces. Is this documented somewhere as being the
preferred style?

I'm packaging Vala Toys for gedit right now, and it uses this for its
project generator, and when editing Vala source, any attempt to change
the indentation gets reset to 8-space/TAB when the file is saved.
Granted, this is probably a bug (that I'll report), but a clarification
would be useful.

Googling for Vala indentation yields this interesting discussion at
gupnp, which uses Vala:

http://lists.o-hand.com/gupnp/0421.html

It seems to suggest that Vala code in the wild uses 4-space indentation,
which probably ends up more readable (less overflowing) than 8-space on
most screens. I personally prefer 2-space indentation when dealing with
languages with compact syntax, stretching to 4 for C-like languages.

The tutorial code I've seen so far seems to use 8-space, and some of
them are over the 80-char width limit, making it rather awkward to edit
on the console.

Incidentally, would it be a good idea to move the tutorial code to a
module under version control? That way they can be matched to different
Vala releases, and developers can track Vala's evolution by tracking
changes in the sample programs.

Regards,

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