Re: [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 07:44:12PM -0500, John Cowan wrote: I used to be a 4 spaces are tabs guy but Sun beat that out of me. Tabs are tabs and they are for a reason, though that reason is pretty dead. The reason was pretty printing listings, anything but tabs got all screwed up. But it has probably been a decade or more since I've pretty printed anything, maybe two. Old habits... I developed my own use of 4 spaces, those are "continuation lines" if (some_stupidly_long_expression_that_goes_on_forever >= this_never_happens_but_it_does_happen_when_deeply_nested) { statement; statement2; etc; } But I'm weird, I hate if (expr) statement; I do if (expr) statement; Curly braces are for more than one statement or I do do if (expr) { statement; } else { statement2; } I also like perl so I do #define unless(x) if (!(x)) because I think this reads better: FILE *f; unless (f = fopen(argv[1], "r")) { perror(argv[1]); exit(1); }