[CentOS] Config file semantics.

Wed Jun 15 21:27:03 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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 at vgersoft.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, m.roth at 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
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