From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: updated emacs configuration |
Date: | 2013-06-27 22:21:30 |
Message-ID: | 20130627222129.GQ3757@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Being at least one of the persons having mentioned astyle to Alvaro, I
> > had tested that once and I thought the results were resembling something
> > reasonable after an hour of fiddling or so. But there were certain
> > things that I could not be make it do during that. The only thing I
> > remember now was reducing the indentation of parameters to the left if
> > the line length got to long. Now, I personally think that's an
> > anti-feature, but I am not sure if others think differently.
>
> I never particularly cared for that behavior either. It probably made
> sense back in the video-terminal days, when your view of a program was
> 80 columns period.
I've never liked that either; I am a fan of keeping things to 80
columns, but when things get longer I prefer my editor to wrap them to
the next line without the silly de-indent (or not wrap, if I tell it not
to.)
Another benefit of more modern tools is that there's no need for a
typedef file, which is great when you're trying to indent after a patch
which adds some more typedefs that are not listed in the file.
> These days I think most people can use a wider
> window at need --- not that I want to adopt wider lines as standard, but
> the readability tradeoff between not having lines wrap versus messing up
> the indentation seems like it's probably different now.
Agreed. I would be sad if we adopted a policy of sloppiness on width.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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