[Mesa-dev] [PATCH mesa] Introduce .editorconfig

[Emil Velikov]

On 29 August 2016 at 22:30, Eric Engestrom <eric at engestrom.ch> wrote:

> A couple of people have also suggested I add `tab_width`, but IMO this concept
> should die: it comes from the confusion between indentation (a logic concept
> meant to convey code structure) and alignment (an aesthetic concept).
> If you need a specific size for your tabs, you're not indenting, you're
> aligning, which makes no sense to do with a character that will have a varying
> size in the first place.
> There is a (pointless IMO, who cares?) war between tab and space indentation
> with various arguments on each side, but I have yet to find anyone with a single
> argument in favour of using varying-width characters to align code... yet I keep
> seeing people doing it.
> (OK, that's not true: I do have a preference for space indentation, because it
> makes it harder for people to do the wrong thing when they get confused)
> </rant> (sorry)

Hehe [1] comes to mind when people start talking on the topic. Then
again some prefer to separate the two - use tabs for indent and space
for alignment, but that's likely a minority so I won't bother.

But seriously: tab_width serves more than just alignment purposes -
people have different setups/visual comprehension thus wide tabs can
make things easier to digest or (on the other end of the spectrum) too
annoying/distracting ;-)

That said, we can tweak things as/if needed.

Thanks,
Emil

[1] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/96d51190854058fe8f6953dd4f1a50047ef47bd9/687474703a2f2f6576616465666c6f772e636f6d2f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323031312f30332f54616273537061636573426f74682e706e67