Re: [Devel] comment formatting - unneeded slashs and asterisksconsidered harmful

[Tom Kacvinsky]

On 2002/08/01 at 13:48, Graham Asher <address@hidden> wrote:

> <<<<<<
> The same with tabs -- I've removed them all and I ask you not to use
> them.
> >>>>>>
> 
> Sorry - that was a mistake. I tried setting my editor to expand all
> tabs to spaces, but it is horribly annoying to use, so I've been
> doing it manually. It would be better if there were a setting to tell
> it to expand tabs to spaces only when saving the file, and convert to
> tabs on loading - but there ain't.

Try using indent, if using Linux/UNIX.  There may even be a GNU indent
for cygwin, if you code on a Windows box.

Once the "code mom" (Werner, that is you) and David decide on the final
code format, we could come up with an indent stlye and use cvs wrappers
to format the code upon check-in.

Tom