From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
dave young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
apw@shadowen.org, jschopp@austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: coding style
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:22:55 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070615182255.GB8151@cvg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4672D4D3.60905@intel.com>
[Kok, Auke - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:05:07AM -0700]
| Chris Friesen wrote:
| >Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as
| >4 characters. If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9
| >characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who
| >will see 5 characters of alignment).
| >
| >The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is:
| >
| >"use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
| >
| >If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.
|
| it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between
| indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major
| confusion with patch submitters.
|
| I personally think that the sentence
|
| "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
Absoulutely agreed with you! There sould be someting making strict rule
over alignment (as it done for the tabs size).
|
| should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion.
|
| Auke
|
Cyrill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-14 18:48 coding style Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-06-15 4:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-06-15 5:09 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-15 6:38 ` dave young
2007-06-15 6:47 ` debian developer
2007-06-15 6:54 ` dave young
2007-06-15 9:06 ` Mailing style (was Re: coding style) Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-15 9:19 ` debian developer
2007-06-15 9:16 ` coding style Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-15 17:32 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-06-15 17:54 ` Chris Friesen
2007-06-15 18:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-15 19:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-15 19:18 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-06-15 19:21 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-15 19:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-06-15 19:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-15 19:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-06-15 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-15 20:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-16 12:30 ` Stefan Richter
2007-06-15 20:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-15 20:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-16 6:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-16 12:40 ` Stefan Richter
2007-06-16 15:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-19 14:05 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-15 19:45 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-15 19:49 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-06-15 20:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-15 22:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-16 12:59 ` please keep the CodingStyle text in check (was Re: coding style) Stefan Richter
2007-06-15 18:05 ` coding style Kok, Auke
2007-06-15 18:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2007-06-16 13:07 ` Stefan Richter
2007-06-16 14:31 ` gorcunov
2007-06-16 17:43 ` Stefan Richter
2007-06-16 18:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-06-16 14:22 ` Clifford Wolf
2007-06-15 8:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-23 15:07 Coding Style Jonathan Earle
2001-01-24 3:23 ` john slee
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101192217390.9361-100000@penguin.transmeta .com>
[not found] ` <3A68E309.2540A5E1@purplecoder.com>
2001-01-20 6:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-20 15:32 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-21 8:24 ` george anzinger
2001-01-19 17:59 Mark I Manning IV
2001-01-20 0:09 ` David Ford
2001-01-20 1:26 ` John Cavan
2001-01-20 0:46 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-20 5:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-21 2:00 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-22 8:24 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-22 22:28 ` Mark I Manning IV
2001-01-23 3:56 ` adrian
2001-01-23 20:05 ` Boris Dragovic
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