Re: [Vala] Emacs vala-mode

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:19 +0100, David Gomes wrote:
> Vala's official indentation method is 4 spaces. However, vala-mode on

[citation needed].  The closest thing to an official statement on the
matter that I'm aware of is the valac source code, which uses tabs.

> Vala's website is made it so that Emacs indents with tabs. Attached is a
> fixed version of that vala-mode.el to make it indent with spaces.

It's really a personal, or per-project, preference.  People who want
spaces can use their ~/.emacs to (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) to do so.
I do (I prefer two spaces).

You could also use file variables to set this on a per-file basis, or
directory variables (see
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DirectoryVariables) to set it for an
entire project.

> I think it should be replaced on Vala's (live.gnome) website.

I don't think it should be unless you can cite your source for the
"official indentation method" statement, but it /is/ a wiki...


-Evan