Re: coding style

[Kok, Auke]

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as 
> 4 characters.  If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9 
> characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who 
> will see 5 characters of alignment).
>
> The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is:
>
> "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
>
> If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.

it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between 
indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major confusion 
with patch submitters.

I personally think that the sentence

  "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"

should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion.

Auke
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