indenting with tabs

[Dan Keys]

Hi,
I know this isn't the subject, but how do I unsubscribe from this list.
Thanks and I apologise for jumping in on top of this subject thread.

On Feb 17, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote:

> Karl Dahlke writes:
>> A downer on tabs if you go 5 or 6 levels in,
>> is that even a modest line gets cut into many pieces by the 80  
>> column limit,
>
> The Linux kernel exceeds that 80-column limit in many places,
> and it is not too annoying to sighted users with 80-column
> displays _if_ it does not happen with too many lines.
>
> It's when most of the lines in a function exceed the limit
> or when 10 lines in a row do that it becomes too annoying.
>
> I'm a sighted user with an 80-column display.  (I use the
> Linux in text mode on a old, small monitor.)
>
>
>> and that's pretty goofy.
>> I know, I know, properly structured code doesn't go
>> 5 or 6 levels in, I know, but the code that I write in a hurry,
>> that I'm not paid to write, sometimes does that.
>> That's just the way it is.
>>
>> Another problem with the tabs, assuming the sighted person might  
>> have the
>> freedom to change the spacing thereof, is that tabs are also used
>> in the middle of a line, to push a short comment off to the right.
>> This will get mucked up if the user changes tab = 4 for a lesser  
>> indent.
>> Well, you know, I don't think people change their tab settings
>> very often, so I'm not going to worry about that.
>> The benefits of single-char tabs on the left kinda win the day, I  
>> think.
>>
>> So here is my revised .indent.pro file for comment.
>> I would like to get this right, or at least reasonably satisfactory
>> to a wide majority, then get on with my life.
>> As you see, I had no luck getting -ci0 to work.
>> That's the second "problem" with indent in only 20 minutes.
>> Guess everyone just runs indent -gnu and doesn't check these  
>> things out.
>> Well, with its faults, it's still the best program for the job,
>> kinda like democracy.
>>
>> // leave blanklines alone!
>> -nsob
>> -ncdb
>> -nbad
>> -nbap
>> -nbbb
>> // Measure levels of indenting - use 8 spaces = one tab
>> // The sighted user can set tab to anything he likes,
>> // and I don't have to listen to a mix of tabs and spaces, or many  
>> spaces,
>> // if I want to discern the indent level.
>> -ut
>> -ts8
>> -i8
>> -bli0
>> -cbi0
>> -nlp
>> // I really want -ci0, but that doesn't work!
>> // So I'm settling for ci3, which acts like -lp when an if statement
>> // is involved, and those are the ones that are usually long anyways.
>> -ci3
>> -ip0
>> -pi0
>> -cli0
>> -di2
>> // Braces are set by the coding standards of the linux kernel
>> -br
>> -brs
>> -cdw
>> -ce
>> -bs
>> // Breaking long lines.
>> -l80
>> -hnl
>> -psl
>> -nbbo
>> // Inserting spaces - usually I don't want it
>> -nprs
>> -npcs
>> -ncs
>> // can't prevent the space in switch (x)
>> -nsaf
>> -nsai
>> -nsaw
>> // the space in while(x--) ; is a good thing
>> -ss
>>
>> Karl Dahlke
>>
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