Maintaining Maximum Line Length When Using Tabs Instead of Spaces?

[jtan]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Aahan Krish <krish at aahan.me> wrote:
> > My question is to them (because I want to use tabs too) is: how do you
> > maintain a line-length of 79 characters?
> >
> > E.g. scenario: The tab setting in your editor could be 2 or 4, and in
> > other developer's browser it could be 8. The code will be longer than
> > 79 chars in the latter's editor.
>
> Easy: You stop fretting about 79 characters. :)
>

I agree with this. Just settle with your team what's your standard and have
similar IDE settings.


>
> If your policy is "lines are no more than 80-100 characters long",
> then the difference between 4-space tabs and 8-space won't break stuff
> unless it was already marginal. So if you run 4-space (or 2-space)
> indentation, you just make sure you keep your lines to the lower end
> of the limit.
>
> Even better, don't quibble about any sort of specific limit, and just
> have a policy of "don't make stuff so long that it's unreadable, and
> don't put silly arbitrary rules on your programmers". That's my
> policy.
>
> ChrisA
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