This page predates tools like clang-format , EditorConfig , and other formatters and is here for historical interest. You're probably better off using something else.
Suppose you have some code which may be editied by people with different text editors and coding style preferences. As discussed by Jamie Zawinski , indentation width, tab width, and indentation behavior can vary widely and can often be a religious (and in the case of Python, sanity) issue.
Some editors are nice enough to let you configure indentation and tab behavior inside the file you're editing. This feature has many different names, such as "modelines," "buffer-local properties", or "file variables". We use the term "modline" here.
The form below lets you create modeline blurbs that you can copy and paste into the file you're editing. Simply select the settings you would like to apply, then copy and paste. You can also create modelines from a set of existing coding styles below.
| Coding Standard | Indentation Width | Tab Width | Tab Key Makes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 4 | ? | Spaces |
| Linux | 8 | 8 | Tabs |
| Java | 4 | 8 | ? |
| Microsoft Visual C++ | 4 | 4 | Tabs |
| Microsoft Visual C# | 4 | 4 | Spaces |
| Microsoft Visual Basic | 4 | 4 | Spaces |
| Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 | 4 | 4 | Tabs |
| Perl | 4 | ? | ? |
| PHP (Zend) | 4 | ? | Spaces |
| Ruby | 2 | ? | Spaces |
Visual Studio modeline support is available via the exTabSettings addin .
Most of the editor- and language-specific information was gathered from a hastily done survey. If you have corrections, please open a bug .
The generator doesn't address braces and other styling issues. This is on purpose.