Coding Style Guidelines?

[demonstar55]

Yeah, but all editors can be set up to have the tab key insert spaces. (all as in all but maybe notepad ...)

[trevius]

Originally Posted by demonstar55

Yeah, but all editors can be set up to have the tab key insert spaces. (all as in all but maybe notepad ...)

That would help with some of the inconvenience of using spaces over tabs, but can you also configure them to backspace to delete a tab worth of spaces in a single button press? My carpal tunnel is bad enough that I try to keep things as minimal as possible when I can.

Pretty simple change to switch tabs to use space for Notepad++ here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...tabs-to-spaces

Either way, I like it when stuff works out of the box without requiring configuring stuff like editors to simplify things. No doubt people will be coding without awareness of that setting and it would be harder on them. Even if it is a simple configuration change, I think no change required is still best.

[KLS]

Decrease indent by a tab worth of spaces on any Windows editor worth something: shift+tab.

Pretty sure Vim has a way to decrease indent too but I don't use it enough to know how offhand.

[Kayen]

Any (commercial) software developers here that have joined an established company will most likely all have a similar story. They are handed the coding standard and expected to write code which conforms to it. End of story.

This not a company though, it is a handful of people developing the source in their limited spare time. Making the process more burdensome may raise the level entry for new contributors and discourage others.

[demonstar55]

Originally Posted by Kayen

This not a company though, it is a handful of people developing the source in their limited spare time. Making the process more burdensome may raise the level entry for new contributors and discourage others.

But standardizing things can help with maintenance by the other devs