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When indenting source code, we as programmers have a tendency to
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use both spaces and tab characters to create the wanted indentation.
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Moreover, some editors by default insert spaces instead of tabs
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when pressing the tab key, and other editors (Emacs for example)
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have the ability to "pretty up" lines by automatically setting up
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the white space before the code on the line, possibly inserting
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spaces in a code that up to now used only tabs for indentation.
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Since the NUMBER of space characters showed on screen for each tab
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character in the source code changes between editors (until the
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user sets up the number to his liking...), one of the standard
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problems facing programmers when moving from one source code editor
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to another is that code containing both spaces and tabs that was
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up to now perfectly indented, suddently becomes a mess to look at
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when changing to another editor. Even if you as a programmer take
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care to ONLY use spaces or tabs, looking at other peoples source
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code can still be problematic.
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To address this problem I have created Artistic Style - a series
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of filters, written in C++, that automatically reindent & reformat
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C/C++/Java source files. These can be used from a command line, or
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it can be incorporated as classes in another C++ program.
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