Re: perlstyle and portability

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>]

>I guess there are three camps here then:

>  1. don't care, but leave ts=8 alone dammit!
>  2. only spaces for indents dammit!
>  3. only tabs for indents dammit!

...

>I'm firmly in camp #1, and see little reason for changing anything.

As am I.  One of the Vi Commandments is "Thou shalt set thy tabstops
to eight and LEAVE THEM BE!"  Anything else is a miserable pain in 
many places better left unsaid.

People often just don't understand how to use vi.  It frightening.
You don't use ^I to intend a blockstop.  You use ^T.

    1) Indent with ^T (in insert mode)
    2) Undent with ^D (in insert mode)
    3) Blockdent with ^O (in insert mode)

It's good to learn how to use << and <% and all that, too.

+--------------------------------+
| pipe me through perl -x | less |
+--------------------------------+

#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<DATA>) {
    next if ? ^ begin ?x;
    last if ? ^ end $ ?x;
    print unpack u => $_;
} 
__END__
begin 644 vistuff
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M9&EE(`IS970@=&%B<W1O<#TX(`HB"B()<V\@7E0@86YD(#P\(&%R92!S;6%L
M;&5R(`IS970@<VAI9G1W:61T:#TT"B(*(@ET:&ES(&ES('1H92!S;W5R8V4@
M;V8@86QL(&AA<'!I;F5S<PIM87`A(`\@>PU](!M/%`HB"B(@"71H:7,@=VEL
M;"!S:&EF="!T:&4@8F]D>2!O9B!A(&)L;V-K(&)U="!N;W0@:71S(&]U=&5R
M('!A<G0*;6%P(%Q3(#XE/#PE/#P*(@HB"71H:7,@=VEL;"!B96=I;B!A(&)L
M;V-K+"!L96%V:6YG(&EN(&EN<V5R="!M;V1E"FUA<"$@'2`;+WT-80HB"6%N
M9"!T:&ES("!W:6QL('1A:V4@>6]U('!A<W0@:71S(&5N9"P@;&5A=FEN9R!I
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`
end

(And now, what are the other V Commandments? :-)

--tom

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