On 4 Apr 2017 23:06:49 GMT
Charlie Gibbs  wrote:

> That's the problem I was having.  I'm stuck in a nasty middle ground where
> I want to indent my C code by multiples of 4 spaces, and many programs
> (e.g. cat) assume a tab every 8 spaces.  So I wind up typing 4 spaces
> for the first level of indentation, tab for the second level, tab plus

 *Horrible* (unless your editor is actually converting the tabs to
spaces which some do) a tab character is an instruction to jump to the next
tab stop (wherever that may be) so assuming any fixed number of spaces is
wrong. Indentation is best done using either spaces or tabs but never mixed.

 I prefer to use tabs for indentation and only for indentation
(alignment within an indentation block uses spaces) because I can display
the code with any tab settings and it aligns perfectly, however when its
not my own code and others will be editing it then spaces are less likely to
get screwed up and that's what goes into the coding standards, usually
enforced by a checkin gate.

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