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I find 2 space indenting difficult to read. I'm sure that I'm
misunderstanding something so take my reply with a grain of salt.
On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:28 AM, David Jencks wrote:
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> On Mar 13, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Jason Dillon wrote:
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>> -1. I don't think there is any value in making the indent for xml
>> or any other files different than the normal indent for all other
>> files.
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> Let me give a couple of examples where the 4-space indent causes a
> lot of pain and will continue to:
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> - in genesis geronimo-skin we have a site.vm file that is a slightly
> modified copy of the default .vm file from doxia-sitetools. Trying
> to update it or compare it with different indents is quite an
> experience.
I'm not terribly familiar w/ site generation. I was under the
impression that we leave cookies by the wiki and elves make it. :)
Could we not just reformat the site.vm file to have 4 space indents?
> - maven archetypes pop out xml with 2 space indenting, and maven xml
> has 2 space indenting. Re-indenting our stuff any time you run an
> archetype or borrow some configuration from maven is a nuisance that
> frequently is ignored and again the spacing difference makes
> comparison quite difficult.
For those of us sensible enough to use IntelliJ, alt-cmd-L makes our
world tidy. Maybe we could get the archetype generator to take the
number of spaces for an indent as a configuration parameter?
> Do you have an editor that can't deal with different indents for
> different file types?
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> thanks
> david jencks
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>> --jason
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>> On Mar 13, 2008, at 6:34 AM, David Jencks wrote:
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>>> IIUC we have a coding standard of a 4 space indent for all files
>>> (documented at http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDEV/coding-standards.html)
>>> . This can make working with maven difficult because its files
>>> and xml output generatiion use 2 space indent for xml and .vm files.
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>>> I think we could make life a lot easier when using maven tooling
>>> to use a 2 space indent for xml and .vm and possibly other files.
>>> At least with IDEA its easy to have different indents for java and
>>> xml files.
>>>
>>> Comments?
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>>> thanks
>>> david jencks
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