Subj : Indentation in source code files
To   : Nightfox
From : jagossel
Date : Fri Aug 25 2017 02:09 pm

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

 >  ja> Very hard to choose... Where I work, the ABSOLUTE coding standard is ta
bs,
 >  ja> amd that is taken very seriously.
 > 
 >  ja> 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
y
 > 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
Code it... Script it... Automate it!

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