On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:47:40 -0300, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Probably a little bit off-topic, but somewhat related.
> > There is a wild mix of TABs and spaces used for indenting all over the place.
> > I had a hard time to follow the code. Could there be done something?
> > Do we have some sort of coding style? If not could we agree on some? At least
> > for such important things as indentation... It is possible to use e.g. astyle
> > to apply the formatting automatically.
> >
> > Franz
> 
> from devel/STYLE:
> 
> * Indent is 4 spaces with mixed tab/spaces and a tab width of 8.
>   (Specifically, a line should begin with zero or more tabs followed
>   by fewer than eight spaces.)

>From a quick visual scan at least half the indented lines start with 4 spaces
instead of TABS. As I understand the quoted paragraph that should be wrong.

> that _should_ be enforced by devel/uncrustify.cfg

When was uncrustify used the last time? I simply ran it on lib/database.cc and
it produced a diff with 661 lines - the leading spaces were NOT fixed ;)

> On the other hand, there are also no doubt places in the code where this
> rule is not adhered to. At the risk of being clichéd, whitespace fixup
> patches are welcome.

Well, I could do it but I won't do it by hand ;) If we can fix the uncrustify.cfg
I would be happy to submit patches.

> Finally, it might help to have some settings whatever editor you are
> using. I'm happy add a file to add a project .vimrc [1] (or whatever editor
> people are using) to complement the .dir-locals.el that is there.

Instead of using special config files for every editor we could also stick to
editorconfig:
http://editorconfig.org/