[Buildroot] [git commit] tstools: GitHub migration
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Oct 20 18:11:27 UTC 2015
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
Hi,
> Note: I hate TABs. TABs are so 70s. Besides, since, as you said, the
> width of TABs varies very wildely between machines (due to personal
> tastes), it means that TABs can not reliably be used to provide a
> "beautiful" layout that is reprpducible everywhere as-is; various
> editors will always break that nice layout.
> Besides, using 8-char-wide TABs means indentation very quickly limits
> the amount of space to write code (80-char-wide lines are close to the
> optimum width for human reading).
> Also, it is very hard to configure one's editor, sicne coding rules vary
> between projects, some requiring leading TABs, 4- or 8- (or even 2!)
> char wide, while others require leading spaces...
> There is today *no* reason to use leading TABs; any sane editor will
> happily insert how-many space you want when pressing TAB (heck, I guess
> even emacs is capable of that ;-] ).
While this is all true, Buildroot is mainly Kconfig and Makefiles, and
both of those languages have special handling of tabs, so we have to
stick to it.
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Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard
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