On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:51:15PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Noah Misch wrote:
>
> > Note that emacs and pgindent remain at odds over interior tabs in comments.
> > When pgindent finds a double-space (typically after a sentence) ending at a
> > tab stop, it replaces the double-space with a tab. c-fill-paragraph will
> > convert that tab to a *single* space, and that can be enough to change many
> > line break positions.
>
> We should really stop pgindent from converting those double-spaces to
> tabs. Those tabs are later changed to three or four spaces when wording
> of the comment is changed, and things start looking very odd.
>
> Really, we should get out of patched BSD indent entirely already. How
> about astyle, for instance? I'm told that with some sensible options,
> the diff to what we have now is not very large, and several things
> actually become sensible (such as function pointer decls, which are
> messed up rather badly by pgindent)
Sounds good to me.
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