[chbot] C Coding Style

[Charles Manning]

While we're talking of this stuff....

Does anyone have suggestions for an editor that stores differentiles" and
allows you to quickly move between "profiles" for different editing.

For example, I tend to do quite a bit of stuff in the Linux kernel (or
associated code), so I like my editor set up that way (indent = tabs, not
spaces: tab width 8 spaces). But then I will likely also work on someone
else's codebase too where it is indent = 4 spaces, stored as spaces.

First prize would be an editor that supports that with one click/key combo
and does require that you go change all the settings.

Linux of course...

-- Charles


On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 3:54 PM, mikael stewart <mikael.stewart at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Volker Kuhlmann
> <list0570 at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri 23 Sep 2016 11:14:26 NZST +1200, mikael stewart wrote:
> >
> > > 1. Use of TAB to indent. All decent, modern IDEs all allow scaling of
> the
> > > tab character. I like large indents (I have a 16:9 monitor and I'm not
> > > afraid to use it!), so set TAB to appear as the equivalent of 4
> monospaced
> > > characters. If I pass my code over to someone else, they can easily
> > > re-scale to suit their eyes without reformatting the content (think tab
> > > stops in a word processor).
> >
> > You're stopping short though. To do that properly you'd distinguish
> > between the tab character spacing and the tab *key* spacing. So you
> > leave tab characters at 8 because too many editors are dumb. Besides, I
> > seriously don't want to have to reconfigure editors for each piece of
> > source code. Then you set the tab key spacing to whatever you like, e.g.
> > 4, and fill up with actual spaces as needed. Works really well. I've
> > only ever seen one editor though which implements this properly (nedit),
> > and yes even backspace un-indents correctly. It has other problems. Did
> > I say editors are dumb?
> >
>
> Not sure what you mean by tab character vs tab key. I have a single
> tab character inserted with the press of the key for a single level
> indent, but I have my editor of choice represent this as if it were 4
> mono-spaced characters (or whatever looks right to me).
>
> The automatic replace with space chars is what I dread because
> invariably something goes wrong with either the indenting or
> un-indenting or both. If you say nedit handles this well I'll have to
> give that a go.
>
> Maybe Eclipse which I use more than anything else could handle it too,
> but in all the years I've used it I've not tried. If anything gets out
> of sync with my style convention (copy+pasting from elsewhere, rogue
> space chars etc.), it does have the cure-all CTRL+SHIFT+F (or select
> then CTRL+I) to reformat which seems to work OK.
>
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