Re: [Tracker] Whitespace clean up

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:16 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 10/12/09 10:57, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > I still find that indenting quite cumbersome, emacs has automatic
> > indent-on-tab support and doing anything custom is extra-painful, since
> > there are some circumstances where emacs thinks it's ok to reindent some
> > line (pressing ';' at the end of the line for example), I generally like
> > the glib/gtk+ approach (no tabs), since alignment will obviously be
> > correct, and it's easy for current editors to do that.
>
> That's a good point. Actually, I spoke to Tim Janik about this and how 
> it works for GTK+ and also Mitch Natterer for how they doing things on 
> GIMP (which has a very clean code base) and they both recommend spaces 
> exclusively. This way:
>
> - the alignments are always correct according to the coding style
> - diffs don't look weird because of the initial \t
>
> I am definitely convinced after talking to Tim and Mitch that we should 
> use purely spaces. What do others think?

No thanks. 

It would also introduce a complete diff, instead of just a big diff.

I think it's insane to so drastically change things.

I also find all-spaces to be more work (I used it for the coding on
tumbler, among other things, and it was far from being fun to keep the
code-flow correct. Compared to tabs for indentation at least).

I think not only should code be cute to look at, it should also be fun
and fast to write. All-spaces isn't fun, and certainly isn't fast to
write. It's rather pedantic, and more of an ideology for the all-spaces
fanbase than a pragmatic something that really works.



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