Re: coding standards

Quoting Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:50:37AM -0500, Darrell Brogdon wrote: > > > Vim is supposed to support Emacs style folding in the next version. > > I know its ugly but it sure is handy (as exampled by a similar > > feature in Homesite). > > Sure, but then we're catering to two editors instead of one. It still > doesn't really gain us anything in the grand scheme of things, and > when you consider PEAR as a standard library of PHP classes, it seems > logical to keep the format as neutral as possible. > Exactly; it's practically impossible to satisfy everyone. Also, (and I go out on a limb here), it should be possible to implement function folding in these editors without those comments - come on you elisp hackers, get out there! :-) > On the other hand, it might be smart to use modelines (and whatever > you call them in emacs) to help enforce the coding standards so that > we don't have repo-bloat from mass whitespace and indentation changes. Those are just a one-off header/footer aren't they? Seems pretty useful. -- Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>