linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] streamline_config.pl: Add softtabstop=4 for vim users

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Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:51:51 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "John (Warthog9) Hawley" <warthog9@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] streamline_config.pl: Add softtabstop=4 for vim
 users

On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 09:50 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:20:13 +0900 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > The root cause of inconsistency is that
> > you mix up space-indentation and tab-indentation.
> > I do not know if it is a standard way either.
> 
> This is the default way emacs has edited perl files for as long as I can
> remember (back to 1996). It became my standard of editing perl files just
> because of that. For everything else, I use tabs.
[]
> > For example, scripts/checkpatch.pl uses only tabs,
> > which I think is more robust.
> 
> Probably because Joe probably uses vim ;-)

I generally use emacs.  Maybe Andy Whitcroft uses vim.
For checkpatch.pl I just followed Andy's style.
get_maintainer.pl uses the 4 spaces then 1 tab style like Steven uses.

perl code can be pretty long left to right so using smaller indentation
seems useful there.