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> "whatever my editor sets it to". Whats wrong with this? I just accept the defaults. Whether that is what the current project demands or what the editor defau
by Paul-ish 9y ago
> "whatever my editor sets it to".
Whats wrong with this? I just accept the defaults. Whether that is what the current project demands or what the editor defaults to. Why waste my time over these things?
- OJFord 9y ago> Whats wrong with this? I just accept the defaults. Whether that is what the current project demands or what the editor defaults to. There's your answer: if letting your editor do whatever and not caring to 'waste time over these things' means you've committed a bunch of code ignorant of the convention respected by the rest of the project, that's not that great.
- Paul-ish 9y agoI did say "what the current project demands". I did not say "I just push whatever I feel like". Again, I don't see the problem with not caring and just going with what others have picked.
- OJFord 9y agoYes, sorry, I meant that you answered your own question when you said that.
- tracker1 9y agoFrankly, if over 90% of your peers are using a given editor/ide, odds are they're using the defaults... as trying to get everyone to change the defaults is painful. Having spent years fighting this in some environments, it's far easier to accept. If your editor supports a common config format (.editorconfig), then use that... if you're all using the same IDE, then best to adapt to the defaults (mostly).
- Godel_unicode 9y agoThere are two very different reasons for this same answer: the don't care vs the don't know. Not caring is fine, not knowing is concerning.
- tripzilch 9y agook so don't answer "whatarespaces?", got it.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoI assume from this response that you have never worked with someone who created semi-constant issues because they didn't realize that .vimrc they copied from GitHub was silently turning spaced into tabs whenever they saved a file. You are a lucky, lucky person.