• Indentation in source code files
• When creating or modifying source code files (e.g. *.c, *.h,
• *.js, *.py, *.pl, *.html), do you indent (and save the files)
• with tab (horizontal tab, ASCII 9) characters or spaces?
• 1) Spaces
  30
• 2) Tabs
  47
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Re: Indentation in source code files
By: Digital Man to on Thu Aug 24 2017 01:00 pm

When creating or modifying source code files (e.g. *.c, *.h,
*.js, *.py, *.pl, *.html), do you indent (and save the files)
with tab (horizontal tab, ASCII 9) characters or spaces?

1: Spaces
2: Tabs

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Re: Indentation in source code files
By: jagossel to Digital Man on Thu Aug 24 2017 09:42 pm

Very hard to choose... Where I work, the ABSOLUTE coding standard is tabs, amd that is taken very seriously.

However, my personal preference is 2 spaces.

My workplace doesn't have a policy on it, but I tend to use tabs. For my personal projects, I used to indent with spaces (I usually used 3 spaces), but I've started using tabs. It seems easier to be consistent when using tabs, and also with tabs, editors often give you the option on how much space it will use to represent a tab. For my Synchronet scripts/mods, I used to use Notepad2 (in Windows) to edit them, and eventually switched to Notepad++. Notepad++ made it more obvious that indentation was inconsistent in many places - Some code had a mixture of tabs and spaces, which was hard to tell with Notepad2 because they looked similar and the indentation looked good with Notepad2.

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Re: Indentation in source code files
By: Nightfox to jagossel on Fri Aug 25 2017 11:25 am

Very hard to choose... Where I work, the ABSOLUTE coding standard is ta

bs,

amd that is taken very seriously.

However, my personal preference is 2 spaces.

My workplace doesn't have a policy on it, but I tend to use tabs. For my personal projects, I used to indent with spaces (I usually used 3 spaces), b

ut

I've started using tabs. It seems easier to be consistent when using tabs,

and

also with tabs, editors often give you the option on how much space it will

use

to represent a tab. For my Synchronet scripts/mods, I used to use Notepad2

(in

Windows) to edit them, and eventually switched to Notepad++. Notepad++ made

it

more obvious that indentation was inconsistent in many places - Some code ha

d a

mixture of tabs and spaces, which was hard to tell with Notepad2 because the

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looked similar and the indentation looked good with Notepad2.

The tab width preferemce was the exact argument made why it's an absolute coding standard where I work, and it does work really well in that aspect,
and the 2-spaces standard is left over feom when I was programming for fun in QBasic while I was in high school (probably just datdd myself by saying that :D); and I think it's a standard from Code Guide (I forget the exact name).

You can view whitespace characters in any decent text editor and IDEs. In Notepad++, I forget where it is. WinMerge has that option as well.

-jag
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jagossel wrote to Digital Man <=-

Very hard to choose... Where I work, the ABSOLUTE coding standard is
tabs, amd that is taken very seriously.

Interesting.

However, my personal preference is 2 spaces.

I like 2 spaces for indents as well. Looks "right".


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El 24/08/17 a las 17:00, Digital Man escribi≤:

When creating or modifying source code files (e.g. *.c, *.h,
*.js, *.py, *.pl, *.html), do you indent (and save the files)
with tab (horizontal tab, ASCII 9) characters or spaces?

1: Spaces
2: Tabs

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Re: Re: Indentation in source code files
By: Ragnarok to Digital Man on Tue Sep 26 2017 10:41 am

El 24/08/17 a las 17:00, Digital Man escribi≤:

When creating or modifying source code files (e.g. *.c, *.h,
*.js, *.py, *.pl, *.html), do you indent (and save the files)
with tab (horizontal tab, ASCII 9) characters or spaces?

1: Spaces
2: Tabs

spaces forever

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Re: Indentation in source code files
By: Digital Man to on Thu Aug 24 2017 01:00 pm


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Re: Indentation in source code H#9
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