On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:12:47PM +0000, bulia byak wrote:
http://paul.oniony.com/sections/information/tabsversusspaces.html
I'm arguing for what he calls "Hybrid Indentation".
I'd prefer it too. My XEmacs inserts tabs for me, and I don't really want to learn reconfiguring it. There are more interesting problems :)
Most ppl seem to think hybrid indentation is good, but I haven't yet seen anyone give emacs/vim/indent/astyle settings to do this automatically. I'm not aware of any of these tools being able to do that. Until & unless there is automated support for hybrid indentation, it will not happen. There are just more important things to spend time & thought on than getting the right combination of tabs & spaces automatically.
Conversely, once someone does give code for either emacs & vim or astyle (or possibly indent, though that doesn't have very good support for C++ AFAIK), I imagine we would switch to it.
pjm.