top | item 14560879 (no title) vvhn | 8 years ago FreeBSD, Linux ... every UNIX kernel codebase ? discuss order hn newest hn_throwaway_99|8 years ago Linux looks like shit with any tab width besides 8. Simple example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/livepat...Notice there are a couple examples in that code where multiline method calls are meant to line up, and if tabs are not set to 8 they don't line up. _IsThisRealLife|8 years ago This feels like a partial proxy question for Unix versus non-Unix development. Unix developers are, in my experience, consistently more interested in configuring their IDEs, which underlies many of the arguments for tabs over spaces.
hn_throwaway_99|8 years ago Linux looks like shit with any tab width besides 8. Simple example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/livepat...Notice there are a couple examples in that code where multiline method calls are meant to line up, and if tabs are not set to 8 they don't line up.
_IsThisRealLife|8 years ago This feels like a partial proxy question for Unix versus non-Unix development. Unix developers are, in my experience, consistently more interested in configuring their IDEs, which underlies many of the arguments for tabs over spaces.
hn_throwaway_99|8 years ago
Notice there are a couple examples in that code where multiline method calls are meant to line up, and if tabs are not set to 8 they don't line up.
_IsThisRealLife|8 years ago