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From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam's protocol description?
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:20:38 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401101420.i0AEKcfJ018210@adat.davidashen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <052401c3d7d7$67989820$0a01a8c0@SOMA>

>  > 2 spaces good. 8 spaces better.
>
> s/8 spaces/tab/

You did not understand my intent.

autoindent is not a space smashing stuff. Autoindent is a feature which
places the cursor under the first non-space character of the previous line.
It works with any way of indents' styling; whether they are 8 or 2 or tabs
or spaces.

The 'space smashing stuff' you see in the patch is meant to decrease the traffic
between sam and samterm, while your proposal does the opposite. Hope this helps.

I find it convenient to have editor do it for me; samterm does a handful
of similar things, such as Ctrl-U, Ctrl-W and parentheses matching. I think
it is natural to have autoindent too.

Hope this helps.

David Tolpin
http://davidashen.net/


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-10 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09 23:31 David Tolpin
2004-01-09 23:58 ` rob pike, esq.
2004-01-10  0:01   ` David Tolpin
2004-01-10  0:21   ` Scott Schwartz
2004-01-10  7:01     ` Rob Pike
2004-01-10 15:46       ` [9fans] acme vdharani
2004-01-10 16:07         ` rob pike, esq.
2004-01-10 13:01   ` [9fans] Sam's protocol description? David Tolpin
2004-01-10 23:15     ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-10 13:31       ` David Tolpin
2004-01-10 23:44         ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-10 13:53           ` David Tolpin
2004-01-11  0:11             ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-10 14:20               ` David Tolpin [this message]
2004-01-11  0:27                 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-10 15:54   ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-10  6:44     ` Scott Schwartz
2004-01-10 16:54       ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-10  6:49     ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-10  6:59     ` Rob Pike
2004-01-10 17:03       ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-10 16:07         ` rob pike, esq.
2004-01-10  2:30 ddj

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