I use spaces as the only character for indentation; personally i cannot handle changes in tab width of a foreign editor. I use 2-space indentation; 4 is too much (as in first character being too far away to move the cursor to from the previous line). I tried 3-spaces once or twice; i (think i) prefer even number of spaces.

I sure do indent my comments, same as rest of the code. Unindented comments, for indented part of the code, indicate some sort of specialness to me: a bug, pay extra attention, most important thing, and such.

To OP, as it has been repeated, be consistent in your own code; try to conform for the good of the project while working w/ others. (I personally would try at least once to push for using only the spaces, not tabs, for indentation; difference in indentation level & position of braces are much easier to tolerate.)

- Parv

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