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From: Chad Huneycutt <chad.huneycutt@acm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: All Developers!
Date: Sat Nov 10 09:38:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BED57AA.4030301@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2bsiahaum.fsf@columbus.localdomain

Andreas Voegele wrote:

BTW, if a single tab was used in front of dependencies the output
> would look like this:
> 
> tabwidth 4:
> 
> DEPEND="virtual/glibc
>     virtual/x11
> RDEPEND="virtual/glibc
>     virtual/x11
> 
> tabwidth 8:
> 
> DEPEND="virtual/glibc
>         virtual/x11
> RDEPEND="virtual/glibc
>         virtual/x11
> 
> IMHO both outputs look good, and with this solution developers could
> still set the tabwidth to 4 or 8.

The problem with tabs comes in when you do stuff like:

local t
local u
t = "some string like this"        # comment here
u = "some other longer string"     # another comment

The comments will not necessarily line up when tabwidths are different.

Chad








  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-10 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-10  4:35 [gentoo-dev] All Developers! Mikael Hallendal
2001-11-10  5:22 ` Martin Schlemmer
2001-11-10  6:00   ` [gentoo-dev] " Andreas Voegele
2001-11-10  6:12     ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-11-10  6:17     ` Martin Schlemmer
2001-11-10  7:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2001-11-10  8:37   ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-11-10  9:05     ` [gentoo-dev] " Andreas Voegele
2001-11-10  9:29       ` Martin Schlemmer
2001-11-10  9:38       ` Chad Huneycutt [this message]
2001-11-10 11:25         ` Daniel Robbins
2001-11-10 13:42           ` Chris Houser
2001-11-10 14:05             ` Daniel Robbins
2001-11-10 14:23               ` Aron Griffis
2001-11-11  6:27               ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-11-11  6:35                 ` Martin Schlemmer
2001-11-11  6:41                   ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-11-21 19:16                   ` Damon M. Conway
2001-11-21 20:08                     ` Daniel Robbins
2001-11-11 10:06                 ` Andreas Voegele
2001-11-11 12:09                   ` jano
2001-11-11 14:17                     ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-11-11 15:26                   ` Tom von Schwerdtner
2001-11-10 14:17           ` Aron Griffis
2001-11-10 14:24             ` Martin Schlemmer

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