Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet-http.c bug or typo?

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:24:49 +0100
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:20:03AM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> I think we want to add a section to README.developer on the white space
> convention in source files. Some conventions I've seen so far:
> * Tab expansion: 8 or 4 spaces
> * Indentation: 2, 4 or 8 spaces
... 
> I *tend* to use N=M=4 in most of my source files, however I am aware that
> not all text editors support tab expansions that differ from the default 8
> stops. Maybe we should politely state that using tab expansion different
> from the de facto default of 8 spaces is a Bad Idea.

Full Ack. I think that TABs should always be expanded to the next position
divisible by 8. Otherwise, just Spaces should be used. That is, of course
my personal opinion :)

  ciao
                 Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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