Cpp Coding Standards/FORMAT/NoTabs
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No Tabs
Various editors have different ways to turn on the "use spaces not tabs" setting:
emacs
Edit ~/.emacs and add
(defvar my-openoffice-path-regexp "/opt/OpenOffice/.*" "Regexp that matches paths into your OpenOffice.org source tree.") (defun my-openoffice-c-hook () (when (string-match my-openoffice-path-regexp buffer-file-name) (message "Using OpenOffice.org code settings") (setq tab-width 4) (setq tab-stop-list '(4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 88 92 96 100 104 108 112 116 120)) (c-set-style "stroustrup") (set-variable 'c-basic-offset 4) (set-variable 'indent-tabs-mode nil))) (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-openoffice-c-hook)
vim
I reckon it's best to set the appropriate directives in the files you own, along the line of e.g. sw/source/filter/ww8/ww8par.cxx
where the last line is
/* vi:set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab: */
I'm not sure if the corresponding
/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- */
near the top is sufficient to "do the right thing" for emacs ?