Re: [Vala] Coding standard: indentation?

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 15:20 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> 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?

Vala itself uses tabs for indentation and spaces for line-up. Tab size
can be set to whatever you like, it doesn't matter if you use tabs
properly.

> 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.

That's a gedit 2.25 bug and unrelated to vtg, as far as I know.

Jürg