Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:09:30 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
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Subject: Re: 80 column line limit?
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>> >It's not about nesting, if that's the reason, the number of tabs
>> >should get a maximum specified instead.
>> >
>> Or we could have the tab width lowered, but I doubt
>> Linus would accept that :)
>
>In fact, one tab could be lowered, it's the first one. Nearly all code
>has at least this tab which is not very useful and would not affect
>readability if reduced to 2 or 4. But it will be difficult to maintain
>a variable tab width, not to mention the alignment problem on the
>second tab.
>
Oh every editor can be patched. Since 4-(wide)-tabs (in general, not just 
at the start) and esp. 2-tabs are dishonored (CodingStyle: "There are 
heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!)"), 6-tabs 
and 3-tabs could be tried. Ahem :).


Jan Engelhardt
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