Re: Request For Comments: 3-space indentation style

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 05.01.2014 03:53 schröbte Hisham:
> On 5 January 2014 00:33, Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com> wrote:
> > At one point, I naturally came to three spaces for indenting my Lua
> > code, and it looked quite good.
> >
> > I didn't know it was the Emacs default, and it somehow felt like
> > living a dangerous life, away from the familiar powers of two...
> >
> > I switched to two for my current projects, but it may change again.
>
> I use three spaces in the LuaRocks codebase, and I've seen it used in
> other projects as well. It fits nicely in a language with
> "end"-terminated blocks.

I prefer two spaces for a similar reason:

    if a >= b and
       b <= c then
      print( b )
    end

Using three spaces misaligns with a wrapped if-condition. Of course I 
try hard to follow a foreign indentation style if modifying an existing 
file, that's when I appreciate (bottom) modelines[1].

> -- Hisham

Philipp

  [1]: https://bugzilla.wireshark.org/tools/modelines.html