From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam question From: David Gordon Hogan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010817163211.D4650199E9@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:32:11 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e16df142-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I carry around a utility I originally developed at Geotronics > (early 1980s) called "retab" that transforms from one set of > tabs stops to another in one pass; it can turn all tabs to an > appropriate number of spaces by specifying -o +1. The manual > page could be improved, but here it is: I am SO sick of C programs that are indented using spaces, eg the GNU code which seems to have standardized on 2 space indent. In the variable width font that I use, 2 spaces is not a lot of indent, and the code is totally unreadable (as opposed to being mostly unreadable, as it would be if it were at least formatted correctly). Real programmers indent with tabs. Maybe the C preprocessor should reject any line that starts with a space :-)