From kde-devel  Mon Mar 20 22:29:21 2000
From: Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen () stud ! tue ! nl>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:29:21 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Indenting
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Wilco Greven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the standard way of indenting. I just had a look at some of the
> kicker sources. There indenting by spaces and indenting by tabs was 
> used in the same source file, which made the code harder to read. I 
> always use spaces myself.

Use whatever indenting level you want, use whatever combination of TABs and
spaces you want, but please make sure TABs are 8 spaces. This way,
everybody can read your sources while you can still indent it any way you
want.

In vim there's the sts (soft tab stop) setting which is very usefull. 
I allways put "vi: ts=8 sts=4 sw=4" on the first line of my sources, forcing
at least vi users to format it according to my preferences :-)

Greetings,
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