kdelibs coding style

Maks Orlovich mo85 at cornell.edu
Sun Jul 23 17:56:46 BST 2006


On Sunday 23 July 2006 03:08, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sunday 23 July 2006 06:01, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > 2. If people aren't respecting an existing file's style when editing
> > the file, what's the likelihood that they are going to follow a new,
> > global one?
>
> You are missing the point here. Look at kdelibs today and you'll see that
> the files with tabs suddenly have sections with spaces that look ok in 4
> space-tabs and other sections with spaces that look ok at 8-spaces tabs.
>
> They tend to have differences on other areas as well.
>
> With so many internal inconsistencies, you can not conclude that people
> didn't respect the style, its much more likely the new contributer simply
> failed to figure out the style of that particular file.

Do emacs and vim have something like kate's visible tabs?




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