On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 07:35:49AM +0200, Sake Blok wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:56:02PM -0400, Bill Meier wrote:
> >
> > I've been thinking for quite some time about suggesting that the use
> > "non 8 space tabs" (eg: tab stops every 4 spaces) be deprecated;
> >
> > So: what do others think ? :)
>
> I would go one step further, as tabs will be displayed differently
> depending on what program is displaying the code, why not deprecate tabs
> alltogether and stick to using spaces for indentation only?
Which is what the majority of dissectors already do :-)
sake@brutus:/wireshark/trunk/epan/dissectors$ fgrep -l "<TAB>" *.c | wc -l
758
sake@brutus:/wireshark/trunk/epan/dissectors$ fgrep -v -l "<TAB>" *.c | wc -l
855
sake@brutus:/wireshark/trunk/epan/dissectors$
Cheers,
Sake