Indentation and Coding Style

kdelibs will have coding style conventions. In general. this is not a bad idea. Our 45528 slocs in KatePart all use a consistent indent-width of 2 spaces. Changing this does not really make sense – ok, if svn praise -w (sure, we never need svn blame in our code ;) finally works, we can discuss this again.

In other words: How “consistent” will kdelibs get with this new conventions? The interesting part of Zack’s mail is

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No exceptions. Either everything or nothing
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While everything would really be cool, in truth it’s not possible to achieve, is it? We will have exceptions or rather violations, I’m pretty sure :)

Some developers already start adding katepart modelines to their souce code. For those who don’t know yet: You also can simply use a single .kateconfig file, which is the equivalent to emacs dir config files. You just have to make sure to set the search depth for a .kateconfig file to – let’s say – 3. Do this in

Settings > Configure Kate… > Open/Save