[Tinyos-devel] consistency in line terminators

[Razvan Musaloiu-E.]

Hi!

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, David Gay wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Aurélien Francillon
> <aurelien.francillon at inrialpes.fr> wrote:
>> Le Monday 02 June 2008 04:19:58 Razvan Musaloiu-E., vous avez écrit :
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> The tinyos-2.x tree contains a minority (about one hundred) of files using
>>> the Windows CRLF line terminators while the majority (about 2 thousands)
>>> follows the Unix format of using only LF. In preparation of the new
>>> release is it ok with everyone to normalize everything to LF? If there is
>>> no complain I volunteer to do it.
>>>
>>
>> Hi, that's a good idea,
>> going forward :
>> - what about defining at the same time if the tab are allowed/recommended ?
>> Many files are mixing tabs and spaces for indentation, if your editor uses a
>> different setting than the writer's then code it's harder to read ... Using
>> only spaces makes the code appear similar on any editor so that's my perfered
>> solution ;)
>> - the spaces at end of line could be avoided too...
>>
>> I think adding those recommendations  to TEP3  would be nice.
>
> Tabs are every 8 spaces. Anything else is broken (seriously) - if your
> editor allows you to change this, don't!

There are quite a big number of files that request tabs of different 
size from 8:
 	$ grep -r 'tab:4' tinyos-2.x | wc -l
 	239
 	$ grep -r 'tab:2' tinyos-2.x | wc -l
 	47

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Razvan ME