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  Re: [RFC] Little isosurface patch ?  
From: Wolfgang Wieser
Date: 27 Feb 2004 11:22:52
Message: <403f6edb@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Calimet wrote:

> Well, that's 3 minutes over 2 hours and half... a raw 2% more.
> (you'd better get some DSL model  ;-) )
> 
I get the other one for free :) So I won't change. 

> the files in a package.  Personally I don't know how to make 'more' or
> 'less' change the tab width.  
>
Use 
  less -x4 file
Or better, use
  export LESS="-x4"
(in bash style) in your profile. (I am using LESS="-M -i -S -x4" or so.) 

> Maybe I'll learn something today. 
>
:)

> Anyway this is also a never-ending fight about how a source
> code should or should not look like.  I choose to use two spaces instead
> of a tab (and those will both compress very well anyway) 
>
I am using one tab per level and have tab size 4 as you already know. 

> and to break long lines before the 80th caracter. 
>
Me too. Because it is dangerous if one cannot see what gets clipped away 
on the right and uneasy to navigate when the lines are folded. 

> Now, go on with your own style -- that doesn't matter much as
> long as the program compiles and works as intended !
> 
Be careful. Code at www.ioccc.org also "works as intended" but 
I never want to read such code :p

Wolfgang


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