[erlang-questions] Controversial subject of the day: tabs and spaces for indentation

[kraythe .]

I have long favored the enforcement of coding style at the repository
level. Then it doesnt matter if someone accidentally reformats their local
copy, the checkin will reformat it accordingly. I dont think people will
ever agree on the "right" format in something that is inherently a matter
of taste. I like tight code with only 2 char indents and as much on the
screen at once. Another guy I know loves drop braces with a brace on the
next line (for java, C, etc). Neither of us is wrong. If the repo checkin
had a reformatter, it wouldn't matter.

*Robert Simmons Jr. MSc. - Lead Java Architect @ EA*
*Author of: Hardcore Java (2003) and Maintainable Java (2012)*
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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu55@REDACTED> wrote:

> > If the debate uncovers some workarounds that make the pain less
> > painful (pun intended), then even better.
>
> I just found out that we could do something like this to reindent files:
>
> emacs -batch sample.erl --eval '(indent-region (point-min) (point-max)
> nil)' -f save-buffer
>
> /Vlad
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