[Gnucash-changes] Converting to GModule backends

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:31:02PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Thursday 13 October 2005 2:16 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > Neil,
> >         There are still many cases where your edits lines are indented
> > differently than the surrounding lines, e.g.:
> 
> Many? I thought I'd caught them all - bar maybe one or two.
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:28:10AM -0400, Neil Williams wrote:
> 
> (leaving the filename in the snippet would be handy!)
> 
> > > @@ -129,15 +154,6 @@
> > >      closedir(xml2_dir);
> > >
> > >      print_test_results();
> > > +	qof_close();
> 
> Yes, a "$!% tab. 
> 
> >         But, I noticed that some of your other edits are consistent.  Is
> > this coincidence or does it just mean that you fixed the problem for
> > new edits but still had old edits to commit?
> 
> It means that I've:
> 1) Stopped my main IDE using tabs at all - it isn't able to show whitespace 
> and those editors that CAN show whitespace are the ones that have messed up 
> by changing the encoding and all manner of other hassles.
> 2) I've gone through the patch in vi which is fairly useful for this task as 
> although it doesn't highlight whitespace from tabs, it can adjust the tab 
> size making it easier to spot.

Ok.  Thank you for addressing this.

> 
> Why, after all this time, can't we all have editors that do the same thing? We 
> should be free to choose the editor that we prefer, but there's no standard 
> for things like this - it's really frustrating that each editor implements 
> whitespace and indenting in such different ways.

Well, any decent editor meant for coding allows the user to define
this behavior.  And a rigorous project would enforce some style
guidelines.  Then it's just a matter of using settings that conform to
the guidelines for the project you're working on at the moment.

Yeah, it's a pain, but only the first time, like many such things.

-chris

p.s. BTW, I use emacs and it is a pure joy to use w.r.t. to this.