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Re: [HACKERS] Source code format vote

Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>

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From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, Jan Wieck <wieck@debis.com>
Date: 2000-01-04T10:25:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Thus spake Vince Vielhaber
> > Ok, this is probably a really dumb question and probably even been answered
> > before but I missed it.  Why not make a tab be a tab and however it appears
> > in the end programmer's editor can be up to the programmer?  Or is pgindent
> > changing tabs to spaces?
> 
> Not a dumb question at all.  However, think about comments.  Look at
> this example.
> 
> 	i++;	/* This variable is being incremented.  I am commenting *
> 			 * this because it is such a stupid variable name
> 			 */
> 
> Under my editor that comment lines up nicely but it will look cockeyed
> for many people reading this because I used tabs instead of spaces and
> my tabs are 4, not the usual 8.

Good point.  I'm looking at it in pine right now and it's not too well
lined up.

Vince.
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