[Tilesathome] space or tabstop in osmarender files

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Mon Jun 16 18:17:35 BST 2008


Sven Geggus <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de> writes:

> Raphael Studer <studerap at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As I'm often look at the whitespace chars in files, I've seen there is
>> no convention about using them in the osmarender files.
>
> ACK. There seems to be no convention at all. Same Problem with indent levels.

Tab characters are evil.

>
>> Would you prefare tabstops or spaces?
>
> I would prefer just using the TAB Key in emacs, but I have no Idea
> what emacs is actually using in this case, because I usually leave
> the formating to emacs entierely (Meta-X indent-region).

Emacs can be set up to insert spaces when hitting the TAB key.  Look
for indent_tabs_mode, standard_indent and tab_width customization
settings.

Matthias




More information about the Tilesathome mailing list