Re: [boost] tabs and emacs

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-09 23:23:59

And now this thread should die of terminal lunacy.
Please, let's get back to library issues.

-Dave

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           David Abrahams * Boost Consulting
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From: "John Levon" <levon_at_[hidden]>
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:11:26PM -0600, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
> > > This claim is wrong. emacs is not smart enough to deal well with
various
> > > indentation and layout constructs automagically. To do so would
require
> > > a full C++ parser with domain-specific knowledge of how for,if,while
> > > constructs and the like are laid out in the project style.
> >
> > 1) Emacs is turing-complete, so it can be done.
>
> If you are an adherent of certain versions of the Church-Turing thesis,
> sure.
>
> The point is it's not easily mechanised because the last four spaces in
> my example are different from the others; it is not easy to derive this
> information mechanically.