[wp-hackers] Coding style

[Elliotte Harold]

Rob Miller wrote:

> Why not just use a text editor that lets you change the width of tabs? I 
> use SciTE, and my indentation settings are:
> 
> Indent width: 4
> Tab width: 4
> Use tabs: yes
> 

Because we don't just work on one project and every project has 
different rules for this. Some projects are set up for 2 spaces per tab, 
some for 4, some per 8. A few IDEs let you set per-project preferences 
for this (Eclipse comes to mind) but that's rare, and little known 
nonetheless.

Tabs are one of many practices that work just fine for a single 
programmer working on a single project, but simply do not scale to 
multiple programmer projects.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo at metalab.unc.edu
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