Re: [Vala] Coding standard: indentation?

[Michel Salim <michel sylvan gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> 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.
I spoke too soon -- discovered that gedit's global tab setting is
overriding the override set for the current file.

(and the vala-mode sets tab width to 4, so all looks good. The
tutorial uses 4 spaces as well, so I must have been pulling numbers
out of my head. Sorry.)


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