TGMG - A word...

[freezway]

Dear TGMG,

USE SPACES! NO ONE LIKES TABS!

[serprex]

I like tabs

[Josh @ Dreamland]

I like consistency, and tabs don't offer that. Wherever I open my code, I want it to look the same.

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{
  float a = 0,
        b = 1;
I don't like going out of my way to make it [tab]float...[tab][space][space][space][space][space]b...
I like pressing tab two or three times, then just backspacing to where it lines up.

I also like leaving indentation on blank lines. That way, I just click where I want to insert, and press enter. But no, damn IDEs keep stripping trailing blanks.

Anyway, iirc tabs are illegal in YAML, Firefox strips them from non-first-char pastes, replacing them with spaces.... they're a dying breed.

[IsmAvatar]

Tabs are illegal for indentation in YAML. They are legal, however, in string literals.
For example, the following is valid:

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---
description: |
 What<tab>now?!
...

[Josh @ Dreamland]

...okay.

[RetroX]

I like stripped blanks.

Just click the line, backspace, then enter.

[luiscubal]

Tabs are AWESOME for consistency.
The only thing that sucks is inconsistent combination of tabs and spaces.

[Josh @ Dreamland]

Which is the only way to consistently pull of the code I posted above. Otherwise, the b could be misaligned with the a for everyone not using a tab width of 2, or whatever.

[Rusky]

Which is why you don't use arbitrarily-indented blocks. It works for every case but that one which gets a little ugly:

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float
a = 0,
b = 1;
Where it does work:

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name = function(
foo, bar,
baz, quux
);
for (
initializer;
condition;
update;
) {
stuff;
}
name = {
initializer,
list
};
Constructor::Constructor(
arguments
) : initializer(foo), list(bar) {
stuff;
}
Constructor::Constructor(
arguments
) :
initializer(foo),
list(bar) {
stuff;
}...and so on, with tweaks for your style preferences.

[freezway]

I also like leaving indentation on blank lines. That way, I just click where I want to insert, and press enter. But no, damn IDEs keep stripping trailing blanks.

YES! can't stand

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int blah(int foo) {
    bar;}

[TGMG]

I just use xcodes formatting which uses tabs, it automatically does it when I press newline and the formatting tools such as reindent use it to and tbh its a habit. Why is it such a big deal? Iv'e never had a problem using tabs, and it will be kinda hard to remember where i have used tabs and where i have used spaces.

[freezway]

its annoying to bet things to line up. Can't Xcode use spaces?

Post made October 24, 2010, 11:11:30 am was deleted at the author's request.

[luiscubal]

Can't you guys just run some kind of automated script to replace tabs with spaces? Perhaps some SVN plugin?

[RetroX]

Can't you guys just run some kind of automated script to replace tabs with spaces? Perhaps some SVN plugin?

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