[MPlayer-dev-eng] Indentation style (was: [PATCH] Fix useless dependencies in the stream lib)

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:30:55AM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:33:11 -0400
> Robert Henney <robh at rut.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:54:45PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:15:52 +0200
> > > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > That sums it up nicely for me.  Albeu, your goal is noble, but you
> > > > could instead try to convince people to go for a single consistent
> > > > style.
> > > 
> > > I'll try nothing. I just hoped we could get a somewhat nicer work
> > > environment.
> > 
> > The environment you seem to want for yourself may be possible without
> > needing "magic comments" within the source tree.  I believe, although
> > haven't investigated, that the same editor parameters can be set on a 
> > per-file basis from within the ~/.*rc files for most common editors
> > just as easily.  (vim may even have a way to be configured to 
> > auto-remember those per-file parameters to ~/.viminfo)
> > 
> > if someone wants to create/maintain such an editor rc file that
> > defines the desired editor parameters for each source file, that
> > seems more favorable to me over the idea of littering magic comments 
> > throughout the files in the source tree.  the rc file may then be
> > included into anyones editor rc files who desires it.  also I would
> > imagine that different magic comments would need to be added to every
> > file for every editor that comes along, which would mean patching
> > every source file individually. *shiver*  With an rc file, for any 
> > new editor just another single rc file would need to be created.
> 
> That sound interesting, I'll look at it. But I suppose the "anti-tags"
> would have the same objections, as it is in effect the same, just at
> a different place.

Not at all.  Tags would clutter up each individual source file.
Resource files would not even need to be part of the MPlayer repository.

Diego