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Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed

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cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) writes:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:16:10 -0800, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
> wrote:
>>cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) writes:
>>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:35:48 -0800, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
>>> wrote:
>>[...]
>>> And if you have a friendly editor it will convert tabs to spaces and
>>> vice versa just as you desire.
>>
>>But not very well if different past maintainers had different ideas of
>>where the tabstops should be.  For example, one section of code might
>>assume 2-column tabstops, and another might assume 4-column or 8-column
>>tabstops.
>
> Within a single file?

Yes.

>                        And your editor displays them all correctly?

No.

That was the problem.

> How remarkable.

>>Which is ok if tabs (and only tabs) are used exclusively for
>>indentation, but not if both sections have a mix of tabs and spaces.
>
> I don't you caught what I had in mind.  If your editor has the option
> of automatically converting tabs into spaces you can use tabs with the
> settings you prefer, get the indentation that floats your boat, and
> still have a tab free file.  I keep all of my code in tab free format
> (except for makefiles - boo, hiss).  If your editor can go the other
> way, i.e., convert those pesky spaces into tabs, you can deal with
> files that historically have tabs that you want to keep that way.
> Just convert tabs to spaces, edit, and convert back from spaces to
> tabs.
  
That could work if everyone who modifies the file *either* uses only
tabs for indentation *or* uses only spaces (with a consistent number
of columns per level) for indentation.  My recent experience does
not indicate that maintaining that kind of consistency is practical.
Perhaps in some organizations it would be.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
    Will write code for food.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:01 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 14:27 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:36 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-16 22:53 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-16 18:06 -0500
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 16:41 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-16 23:01 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 19:49 -0500
        Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 17:46 -0800
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-16 22:29 +0000
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:38 +0000
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-01-16 15:30 -0800
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-17 00:03 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 16:35 -0800
        Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-17 02:00 +0000
          Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 19:16 -0800
            Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-17 05:15 +0000
              Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-17 00:00 -0800
          Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-17 04:04 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-16 22:44 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-16 17:58 -0500
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 19:36 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-16 23:33 -0500
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 07:18 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-01-17 13:54 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 07:39 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-17 19:01 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-01-18 21:21 +0000

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