Open Radar

 
15-Jul-2011 01:51 PM Jeremy Sherman:
Summary:
Indentation preferences are currently application-wide:
  * Prefer indent with: tab/spaces
  * Tab width
  * Indent width

This causes a problem when you switch between projects with different indentation styles. It can also cause a problem within a project when that project includes code from another project in a different style.

Making indentation preferences a project-level preference with the ability to override on a per-file basis would fix this. The current application preference would remain but would act as the default style for newly created projects and for projects that don't specify a style (old projects).

Steps to Reproduce:
* Work on a project that uses 4-space with spaces indentation.
* Switch to a project that uses 3-space with tabs indentation the next day.

Expected Results:
* No problem! Indentation is below your notice, and has been working just fine without you, thanks to the project level settings stored in the .pbxproj file.

Actual Results:
* Realize 2 hours in that you've been indenting wrong the whole time.
* Change your indentation preferences.
* Spend several boring minutes deleting spaces, since ^I does not reformat code that sort of seems already correctly formatted, even if it's not.

Regression:
N/A. This is a feature request.

Notes:
This would be like modelines in Emacs or vim, but less in your face (no decorator lines in each file) and more convenient (because the notion of a project prevents you from having to respecify the setting for each and every file).