From: Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
To: Hugo Ferreira <hmf@inescporto.pt>
Cc: Thomas Gazagnaire <ocaml@gazagnaire.com>,
caml-list caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>,
Romain Bardou <Romain.Bardou@lri.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:13:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081023141335.GA521@snarc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4900596C.80406@inescporto.pt>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:01:00PM +0100, Hugo Ferreira wrote:
> Thomas Gazagnaire wrote:
>> I would prefer to not have an editor which modify completely the file I
>> am working on (ie. automatically replace tab by spaces). When working
>> on big project, you cannot assume that everybody use spaces-based
>> editor, and you still want to minimize the diff size of your patches.
>>
>
> That is the whole issue. If you work in a big project wherein everyone
> can you use their own "tab length", maintaining consistent indentation
> is difficult (if not impossible). As Romain Bardou pointed out, you
> can even use the same editors with differing "tab length". Real messy.
tab has no length. projects tab-indented (not talking about alignment here),
is the only consistant choice that permit everyone in this same project
to use any *representation* they want for their indentation (8 spaces, 2
spaces, 4 spaces, 11 spaces, ...) without making a mess.
--
Vincent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 13:19 Kuba Ober
2008-10-20 13:37 ` [Caml-list] " Mark Shinwell
2008-10-20 14:05 ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2008-10-20 15:45 ` Robert Morelli
2008-10-20 15:56 ` David Teller
2008-10-20 17:15 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2008-10-20 20:51 ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-10-21 13:04 ` Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
2008-10-20 20:15 ` Richard Jones
2008-10-20 20:32 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-20 23:02 ` Robert Morelli
2008-10-21 2:22 ` Peng Zang
2008-10-21 16:57 ` Christian Stork
2008-10-21 12:16 ` tags (Was: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?) Florian Hars
2008-10-20 20:16 ` [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you? Kuba Ober
2008-10-20 14:33 ` Andres Varon
2008-10-20 19:54 ` Peng Zang
2008-10-20 14:47 ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-20 20:14 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-21 13:14 ` Dmitry Bely
2008-10-21 13:50 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-10-21 18:35 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-21 19:31 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-10-21 20:26 ` Philippe Strauss
2008-10-22 12:42 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-22 21:56 ` David Teller
2008-10-22 22:39 ` David Teller
2008-10-23 7:47 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-10-23 8:27 ` Romain Bardou
2008-10-23 10:13 ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2008-10-23 11:01 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-10-23 14:13 ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
2008-10-23 14:43 ` Romain Bardou
2008-10-23 15:22 ` Dave Benjamin
2008-10-25 10:14 ` DooMeeR
2008-10-25 12:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-10-25 12:43 ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-25 13:22 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-10-25 23:08 ` Indentation (was Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?) Martin Jambon
2008-10-26 16:23 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-10-26 19:41 ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-23 17:20 ` [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you? Kuba Ober
2008-10-23 17:17 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-23 0:22 ` Peng Zang
[not found] ` <200810221330.11103.ober.14@osu.edu>
[not found] ` <D3D47C54-888B-4F14-9C5D-79FF3D9F96D6@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 17:13 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-01 1:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-03 14:15 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-03 23:11 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-04 18:35 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-04 23:36 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-04 23:06 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 5:48 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 8:53 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-11-05 15:01 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 15:05 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 16:56 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 14:58 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 15:20 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 16:39 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 15:55 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 17:08 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 17:36 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-15 13:02 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-15 12:25 ` Richard Jones
2008-11-15 20:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-16 12:04 ` Florent Monnier
2008-11-05 8:39 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-11-05 15:44 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 17:03 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 16:41 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 16:46 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 16:33 ` Jérémie Dimino
2008-11-05 16:43 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 17:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-23 13:53 Baudet David
2008-10-24 7:17 ` Maxence Guesdon
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