Re: A small fix for smart placement

[Rafal Kolanski <rafalk cse unsw edu au>]

Timo Korvola wrote:
> On Saturday 10 April 2010 16:42:14 Rafal Kolanski wrote:
> > Also, I would like to ask, what is the official stance on how wide a
> > tab is in sawfish sources?
>
> Tab stops are every 8 characters, as has been the de facto industry 
> standard for a few decades now.  It is of course different from the 
> block indentation step.

Sigh. This should have been obvious, I don't know why I didn't try 8, my 
default setup for some people's C code is tab stop 8 soft tab stop 4. 
Sorry. Setting ts=8 in my editor makes everything align.

> I do not recall if we have a policy whether tabs or spaces should be 
> preferred in indentation.  Old code tends to use tabs, but generally 
> tabs are a nuisance.

I think policy for these things is good, prevents funny whitespace-only 
diffs where the text looks identical on the terminal and in your editor, 
but spaces got swapped with tabs somehow. For all my personal projects, 
I avoid them (tabs). I recognise, however, that sawfish is not my 
personal project and I will simply set my editor to conform with 
whatever the policy is, which currently seems to be "make it look like 
the rest of the file you're editing" :)

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Rafal Kolanski.