General / Off-Topic code indentation - tabs or spaces?

[StiTch]

This is thread will probably go the same way as the open/solo/pg one

Bloody git gudding space users griefforing my code. I want to tab my way! I don't care if that makes me a codebear, tabbing is how I like it and if you don't let me use it then I am not being allowed to indent my own trail!

 

[metatheurgist]

Personally I favour ..

if (csTJ == "to blame") {
    /* all is right with the world */
} else {
    /* well it's not my fault */
}

Burn the witch!

 

[starman]

They can talk...

[video=youtube;seM9SqTsRG4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seM9SqTsRG4[/video]

 

[Jenner]

Personally I favour ..

if (csTJ == "to blame") {
    /* all is right with the world */
} else {
    /* well it's not my fault */
}

lol. Love the code.

 

[Crank Larson]

Whichever you decide to use, you should never mix the two. This prevents anyone else from being able to reformat correctly in their IDE. I prefer tabs, as then most IDEs allow you to set the number of spaces a tab will indent by. I choose different indent sizes depending upon the size/resolution of the monitor.

 

[CapitanAceRimmer]

Spaces, I personally prefer to be spaced out over being tabbed out.

 

[Cliché]

Fwiw, I always used tabs (faster), but it's been years.

 

[znôrt]

Fwiw, I always used tabs (faster), but it's been years.

i doubt anyone actually presses space a multiple of 4 times in a row to indent, but go figure

everybody (methinks) uses tabs. what's debated is what your editor finally saves. in work groups it's specially important that this is consistent. if there are diverse environments it's just a matter of configuring all editors the same way (editorconfig linked above helps a lot with that, but many other solutions exist).

 

[OnePercent]

I always prefer tabbing, because it's faster to do so, and easier to remove them too. In the end it's also more concise to stick with one style.

 

[Eriseley]

I use spaces but with the objective of standardized tabbing...if we could just all agree on tabs man. Then tabs.

 

[Robert Maynard]

i doubt anyone actually presses space a multiple of 4 times in a row to indent, but go figure

Code::Blocks will insert the pre-defined number of spaces when tab is pressed.

 

[Eriseley]

Code::Blocks will insert the pre-defined number of spaces when tab is pressed.

Pretty sure visual studio can be configged to insert x spaces on tab, too. It's a dangerous world.

(YES I Visual Studio, it's smoooooth).

 

[Alec Turner]

Pretty sure visual studio can be configged to insert x spaces on tab, too. It's a dangerous world.

(YES I Visual Studio, it's smoooooth).

Yup, I've got Visual Studio set up to give me my 4 spaces, 1 tab, 1 tab + 4 spaces, 2 tabs, etc indentation.