Do you ever look at your code with something other than your text editor? grep? less? more? cat? in a text editor at someone else's desk? in a cvs repository via the web? How do you set the tabstops in all those, so your code formatting appears consistent no matter how you're viewing your code? You don't like the assumption that tabstops are always 8 spaces, but where, other than where you've manually changed away from the default of 8 spaces, are tabstops anything but 8 spaces?
Anywhere other than your editor, what you wrote to look like this (on an 80 character terminal):
Code:
if (!statOnly) {
if (result.errorCode) {
if (result.messages.size() > 0) {
TXT_Printf(stderr, SEV_ERROR, "%s\n", (const char *)result.messages[0]);
}
else
TXT_Printf(stderr, SEV_ERROR, "Unknown error.\n");
exit(result.errorCode);
}
will now look like this:
Code:
if (!statOnly) {
if (result.errorCode) {
if (result.messages.size() > 0) {
TXT_Printf(stderr, SEV_ERROR, "%s\n", (const cha
r *)result.messages[0]);
}
else
TXT_Printf(stderr, SEV_ERROR, "Unknown error.\n"
);
exit(result.errorCode);
}
Of course, if that were printed out on paper, those lines would just get lopped off, instead of wrapping.
(Historically, it was because I never used it, and when using tiny hard-drives, it took up waaaay too much space for something I never used. Now it's just a matter of principle.)
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