Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:41:44PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
I'm fully capable of driving to Canada to set you on fire, Mike.
John
Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
Indentation wars. I don't *think* there was a usenet newsgroup for that....
mark, prefers 3 anyway
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
Indentation wars. I don't *think* there was a usenet newsgroup for that....
It's four, unless I'm holding a beer. Then it's 2.
Steve
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:41:44PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
I prefer two or four, usually two. Three is extremely disturbing to me because it is not a multiple of two; in addition, due to the potato incident as a child, I am forever mentally scarred and incapable of pressing the spacebar three times without recalling the tangy, nauseating smell of potato salad. Two or four shall be the number of spaces in my config files. Three is right out, as is five.
Cheers, Cody Jackson
On 6/15/11, Steve Thompson smt@vgersoft.com wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
Indentation wars. I don't *think* there was a usenet newsgroup for that....
It's four, unless I'm holding a beer. Then it's 2.
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Cody Jackson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:41:44PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
I prefer two or four, usually two. Three is extremely disturbing to me because it is not a multiple of two; in addition, due to the potato incident as a child, I am forever mentally scarred and incapable of pressing the spacebar three times without recalling the tangy, nauseating smell of potato salad. Two or four shall be the number of spaces in my config files. Three is right out, as is five.
Five, it goes BOOM, and, being bad in Thy Sight, will buy it.
mark
Cheers, Cody Jackson
On 6/15/11, Steve Thompson smt@vgersoft.com wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
Indentation wars. I don't *think* there was a usenet newsgroup for that....
It's four, unless I'm holding a beer. Then it's 2.
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Five, it goes BOOM, and, being bad in Thy Sight, will buy it.
mark
Hey, look! It's the old admin from scene 24...
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:23:29PM -0700, Cody Jackson wrote:
I prefer two or four, usually two. Three is extremely disturbing to me because it is not a multiple of two
I am constantly frustrated by being limited to a whole number of spaces. What if I want pi spaces? Or e*i?
--keith
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Keith Keller wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:23:29PM -0700, Cody Jackson wrote:
I prefer two or four, usually two. Three is extremely disturbing to me because it is not a multiple of two
I am constantly frustrated by being limited to a whole number of spaces. What if I want pi spaces? Or e*i?
You can get e^(i*pi) spaces with the BS key.
--On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 02:52:22 PM -0700 Keith Keller kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote:
I am constantly frustrated by being limited to a whole number of spaces. What if I want pi spaces? Or e*i?
I would like to introduce other space operators as well. For example, we could use d(space)/dt to not only have spaces in our config file, but indicate how quickly we typed them.
Imagine the possibilities:
- Do you want your whitespace to also indicate the number of configuration parameters? There's a lim(sigma(space) sub (w->infinity)) for that
- Tired of typing all those spaces? Just use M-x dirac-delta-space and you're done. (Mind you, it removes all other spaces from all other config files on your system and puts them into the current file, so you might have to be careful when invoking it.)
- How about bra and ket space operators for those days when you're not sure if you want spaces or not, and want to defer the answer until someone reads the file?
(Devin wanders off to code up the lisp for emacs' M-x laplacian-space-mode ...)
Devin Reade wrote:
--On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 02:52:22 PM -0700 Keith Keller kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote:
I am constantly frustrated by being limited to a whole number of spaces. What if I want pi spaces? Or e*i?
I would like to introduce other space operators as well. For example, we could use d(space)/dt to not only have spaces in our config file, but indicate how quickly we typed them.
Imagine the possibilities:
- Do you want your whitespace to also indicate the number of configuration parameters? There's a lim(sigma(space) sub
(w->infinity)) for that
- Tired of typing all those spaces? Just use M-x dirac-delta-space and you're done. (Mind you, it removes all other spaces from all
<snip> Minkowski space?
mark
On 6/15/2011 3:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
White space should be meaningless, but unnecessary changes to existing files destroy most intelligent attempts to track differences.
On 06/15/2011 10:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
Three is evil, four even more. Two spaces and what do they say? It will keep sanity close and evil at bay. Three won't work, we all know she's a jerk. Four is a fail, it's missing a two so can never be the grail. Just two FTW! Anything more is just a deadly sin.
Regards, Patrick
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On 06/15/2011 10:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this?
Three is evil, four even more. Two spaces and what do they say? It will keep sanity close and evil at bay. Three won't work, we all know she's a jerk. Four is a fail, it's missing a two so can never be the grail. Just two FTW! Anything more is just a deadly sin.
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