Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces

[Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>]

Benny Halevy wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention
> described below that I personally found the most practical with
> several different editors.
>
> The gist of it is that tabs should be used for nesting, not for decoration.
> Indent your code with as many tabs as your nesting level, where all statements
> will begin, and from there on use space characters.
> The rational behind it is to be tab-width agnostic so regardless of your
> tab expansion setup, the code will look correct and will make sense.
>
> When you break a line and want the new line text to start below a specific point
> relative to the previous line (I consider that "decorating") then start the new
> line with the same number of tabs as the previous one and then just use space
> characters as their width is the same as any character in the previous line,
> (assuming fixed-width fonts of course).

I find it meaningful to indent extended lines one extra tab stop, but beyond 
that I agree it is just decoration.

	-- Chris
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