pgindent (Re: [HACKERS] LONG varsize - how to go on)

On 1999-12-18, Bruce Momjian mentioned:

> I don't need to run pgindent before _every_ release.  No problem.

Is this pgindent thing negotiable at all? IMHO the output of plain indent
-orig looks much nicer (and readable). It also tends to look like the bsd
c-style in emacs. If we could just tell people 'set up {emacs|vi|ed} like
this' (such as c-set-style bsd) there wouldn't be half a dozen different
formats propagating through the source until someone comes around with
pgindent.

Btw., I use GNU indent 2.2.1 which is a long way from the versions
pgindent tries to warn about.

More important than arguing about code formatting, however: Could we lose
this a-tab-looks-like-4-spaces thing, now that Bruce has a new editor(?) ?
In any unprepar{ed|able} viewer (cat/more/less/pico) the code looks like
hell. Maybe we could lose the tab altogether because it's a pain. Just
insert 4 (8, 12, ...) spaces.

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