Subj : Indentation in source code files
To : Nightfox
From : jagossel
Date : Fri Aug 25 2017 02:09 pm
Re: Indentation in source code files
By: Nightfox to jagossel on Fri Aug 25 2017 11:25 am
> ja> Very hard to choose... Where I work, the ABSOLUTE coding standard is ta
bs,
> ja> amd that is taken very seriously.
>
> ja> However, my personal preference is 2 spaces.
>
> My workplace doesn't have a policy on it, but I tend to use tabs. For my
> personal projects, I used to indent with spaces (I usually used 3 spaces), b
ut
> I've started using tabs. It seems easier to be consistent when using tabs,
and
> also with tabs, editors often give you the option on how much space it will
use
> to represent a tab. For my Synchronet scripts/mods, I used to use Notepad2
(in
> Windows) to edit them, and eventually switched to Notepad++. Notepad++ made
it
> more obvious that indentation was inconsistent in many places - Some code ha
d a
> mixture of tabs and spaces, which was hard to tell with Notepad2 because the
y
> looked similar and the indentation looked good with Notepad2.
The tab width preferemce was the exact argument made why it's an absolute
coding standard where I work, and it does work really well in that aspect,
and the 2-spaces standard is left over feom when I was programming for fun in
QBasic while I was in high school (probably just datdd myself by saying that
:D); and I think it's a standard from Code Guide (I forget the exact name).
You can view whitespace characters in any decent text editor and IDEs. In
Notepad++, I forget where it is. WinMerge has that option as well.
-jag
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