Re: [Haskell-beginners] indentation

On Feb 14, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On 14/02/10 22:05, Jorden Mauro wrote:

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On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Stephen Blackheath [to Haskell-Beginners] wrote:

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Jorden,

Cave persons such as yourself can use tabs as long as your tab size is 8 characters. This is "hard-coded" into the Haskell 98 specification.

My editor, being made of sticks, some rocks, and the jawbone of an ass, just puts in a tab character. The graphical representation of a tab character expands from the insertion point to the nearest multiple of 8 characters, but that has no bearing on the file contents.

Sure it does, the bearing is that there's a tab character there. ;-)

If I put one.

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Also, there are situations when a tab-boundary is not enough. What is the correct course of action here?

Other people have already suggested it: change editor.

Not happening. Sam is sublime.

Please let us know if there is *any* good reason for anyone to be using such a limited editor in the 21st century.

Structural regexes. Size. Remote editing. Simplicity of code, UI, etc. Lack of bugs. Orthogonality. Performance. (Sam handles dozens of megabyte-sized files, even on a remote machine, without batting an eye, even during regex commands)

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Currently, I usually try to change the line to spaces, or if I'm lazy, I'll put spaces after tabs, which I don't feel good about. My editor knows enough to indent the next line the same amount.

From this it sounds like you aren't using such a stone age editor after all.

I assure you, I am. It has exactly only 33 commands. Give it a spin, I doubt you'll like it. It's not ed, but does have a GUI -- a verrry simple one.

Are you sure you can't get it to also convert tabs to spaces?

Not without reprogramming it. Of course, I could convert files by hand, but I could just as easily use spaces. I just thought tabs were acceptable. I was a contientious objector in the Tabs or Spaces War. Is just using spaces the Haskell Caveman Solution?

/M

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