At Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:59:09 +0100, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote in
> > On 22 Feb 2022, at 07:14, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, don't we use the -ftabstop option flag to silence compiler?
> > The warning is contradicting our convention. The attached adds that
> > flag.
>
> Isn't this flag contradicting our convention? From the docs section you
> reference further down:
>
> "Source code formatting uses 4 column tab spacing, with tabs preserved
> (i.e., tabs are not expanded to spaces)."
Ugg. Right.
> The -ftabstop option is (to a large extent, not entirely) to warn when tabs and
> spaces are mixed creating misleading indentation that the author didn't even
> notice due to tabwidth settings? ISTM we are better of getting these warnings
> than suppressing them.
At Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:00:46 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in
> No, we use pgindent to not have such inconsistent indentation.
Understood. Thaks for clarification.
> > By the way, the doc says that:
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/source-format.html
> >
> >> The text browsing tools more and less can be invoked as:
> >> more -x4
> >> less -x4
> >> to make them show tabs appropriately.
> >
> > But AFAICS the "more" command on CentOS doesn't have -x options nor
> > any option to change tab width and I don't find a document that
> > suggests its existence on other platforms.
>
> macOS, FreeBSD and NetBSD both show the less(1) manpage for more(1) which
> suggests that more is implemented using less there, and thus supports -x (it
> does on macOS). OpenBSD and Solaris more(1) does not show a -x option, but AIX
> does have it. Linux in its various flavors doesn't seem to have it.
Thanks for the explanation.
> The section in question was added to our docs 22 years ago, to make it reflect
> the current operating systems in use maybe just not mentioning more(1) is the
> easiest?:
>
> "The text browsing tool less can be invoked as less -x4 to make it show
> tabs appropriately."
>
> Or perhaps remove that section altogether?
I think the former is better.
regards.
--
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
