4 Mar
2021
4 Mar
'21
10:24 p.m.
On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 10:52:30 -0600, Will Senn wrote:
OK. So, I've been trying to decide (for the last
time, I swear) whether
to use tabs or spaces in my code... I did a quick pulse-check on the
state of argument and it appears to be alive and well in 2021.
FWIW, FreeBSD's style(9) man page
(https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&apropos=0&sektion=9…)
includes:
Indentation is an 8 character tab. Second level indents are four
spaces.
I've always used 8 character tabs (though in my own code I don't stick
to style(9)). As others have commented, it's the Unix standard, and
the confusion between tabs and spaces is bad enough without changing
the relationship.
Greg
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