From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reformat all of src/
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:01:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXoh6G9NSNFKLUQ3vDhwGk5s-5p+-BjRMc82qNcPSMZWN0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9zwvz91.fsf@gnus.org>
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org> writes:
>
> > They made sense 40 years ago when my 2315 disk pack held 1.2MB.
> > These days I too think they suck.
>
> I think that if you notice whether the indentation is made from tabs,
> spaces or a mix of them, you're probably doing something wrong.
>
"Something" is not very helpful. Would you care to suggest a set of best
practices to insulate me (or more importantly a programming newbie) from
<ht> pain?
Pain extends beyond mere emacs editing. I have worked on projects where
tabstops were at multiples other than 8. I commend to you the task of
writing
a language frontend that tries to report errors in context in such
settings.
And - assuming you believe in unit testing - providing tests for that
facility.
Not saying it cannot be done. (I have done it.) But it does leave one
wondering why such an anachronism is allowed to persist.
/john
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-28 0:59 Reformat all of src/ Chris Gregory
2016-12-28 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-28 4:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-28 4:52 ` Chris Gregory
2016-12-28 5:01 ` Chris Gregory
2016-12-28 12:58 ` Phillip Lord
2016-12-28 15:35 ` John Yates
2016-12-28 15:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-28 16:01 ` John Yates [this message]
2016-12-28 16:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-28 16:17 ` Phillip Lord
2016-12-28 17:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-28 17:35 ` Phillip Lord
2016-12-28 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-28 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-28 16:32 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-28 16:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-28 16:56 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-28 16:59 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-28 17:12 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-28 17:20 ` Phillip Lord
2016-12-28 18:38 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-29 1:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-12-29 5:53 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-29 11:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-12-30 1:07 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-30 10:34 ` Phillip Lord
2017-01-01 1:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-12-29 13:18 ` Phillip Lord
2016-12-29 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-29 17:18 ` John Covici
2016-12-29 17:19 ` John Covici
2016-12-30 10:30 ` Phillip Lord
2016-12-28 17:23 ` John Yates
2016-12-31 10:23 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-29 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-29 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-29 12:04 ` Tino Calancha
2016-12-29 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-30 0:09 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-30 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-29 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-28 10:27 ` hector
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-12-29 2:08 Chris Gregory
2016-12-29 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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