[gmx-developers] CVS / Formatting conventions

[David]

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 01:32, Justin MacCallum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My CVS account does not seem to be working (which isn't a big deal) and
> I have some changes to the pull code to merge in. Who should I send
> those to?
> 
> Also, what formatting convention do you use for source files? I.e.
> indentation and such. My editor seems to use a different convention than
> what you guys use, making it hard to merge changes. What command are you
> using to beautify the source? I will run my code through it before I
> submit it to make it easier to merge.
I generally use the auto-indentation of emacs.

It is very important that we avoid what computer scientist call
"space-wars", i.e. how the indentation should be. If you have a new
piece of code you can do as you like, but otherwise it's not a good idea
to reformat stuff if you aren't modifying it anyway.

> 
> Justin
> 
> 
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Groeten, David.
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