Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OpenBSD madness...

[Thomas Lord]

There is, afaik, an indent(1) option to substitute spaces for
tabs and there are various other options that, when combined,
get the level of indenting "right".

Incidentally, part of the reason I like 2-space indents and
shun gratuitous vertical whitespace and why I like
long lines up to a certain limit is that, with those constraints
you can put a heck of a lot of code on one screen and still
have it look lovely and readable.   You sacrifice a little. for
long lines, in having to use landscape printing or (for old
timers) a serious line-printer but... seems worth it to me.

-t


Matthew Hannigan wrote:

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:44:24PM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:
  

I hope you will use GNU style (2-space) indenting.

For a while there was a volunteer who helped (quite nicely,
IMO), by regularly submitting patches that replaced tab
characters with spaces.
    

Is there a GNU indent(1) invocation that will
do the necessary or at least report whether
a formatting transgression has occurred?

The linux kernel has 'lindent' for this purpose.

Matt