From: Monty Williams <monty@...>
Date: 2011-05-18T01:15:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36271] Re: Whitespace conventions?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Davis" <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 2:05:48 AM
> Subject: [ruby-core:36262] Re: Whitespace conventions?
> 
> 
> On May 16, 2011, at 23:54 , NARUSE, Yui wrote:
> 
> > 2011/5/17 Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com>:
> >> So, while working on some documentation, I've noticed that there's
> >> a lot of
> >> mismatched spaces and tabs in the standard library. Is there a
> >> real
> >> convention for this? Would a patch that converts everything to two
> >> spaces
> >> rather than tabs, and removes white spaces at the ends of lines be
> >> accepted?
> >> I'd imagine that being consistent is better than a patchwork of
> >> indentation.
> > 
> > If you use Emacs or Vim, I wrote a guide:
> > http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/DeveloperHowto#coding-style
> 
> I am disappointed that we can't just switch entirely to spaces. It
> seems so antiquated.
> 
> That said, your URL suggests you wouldn't mind a sweeping commit for
> all the ruby code with tabs left. Would that be OK for Steve or me
> to do?
> 

For anyone who keeps their code in a local git repo: I find it very useful to have a script in
.git/hooks/pre-commit that won't let me do a commit if there are mixed spaces & tabs or trailing tabs.
I'd assume the same is possible for SVN.

-- Monty