Month: September 2009

People,

Let’s all stop doing this:

static void
my_calling_function_wrong (void)
{
[tab]MyItem1 *item1;
[tab]MyItem2 *item2;
[tab]MyItem3 *item3;

[tab]my_long_funcion (item1,
[tab][tab][tab][tab]..item2,
[tab][tab][tab][tab]..item3);
}

And start doing this:

static void
my_calling_function_right (void)
{
[tab]MyItem1 *item1;
[tab]MyItem2 *item2;
[tab]MyItem3 *item3;

[tab]my_long_funcion (item1,
[tab].................item2,
[tab].................item3);
}

The former doesn’t make sense unless each and every code viewing text display understands Mode lines’ tab-width property. The latter just always works, with every normal text editor.

ps. The super cool guys at Anjuta have already fixed this for me. I’m sure the even more cool EMacsers and the uber cool vimers can also fix their text editors?

Unnecessary note: [tab] is a tab and . is a space in the examples.