codesniffer using pear standard ignore line indent

Question

using codesniffer with pear standard. I got over 20tsd errors cause of line indents. I use tab-stops for indenting. I try to disable that check but I failed.

I removed the last rule from the generic standards in the ruleset.xml for the pear standard. Yet the indenting is still considered an error.

How do I remove the indention checks completely for the pear standard?

Answer 1

It should work, so you should definitely try to understand why tweaking your ruleset.xml file doesn't work in your environment, otherwise you'll be missing many features from CodeSniffer.

As a reminder, here are the two options:

1. Either you explicitly exclude the sniff in your ruleset :

   <rule ref="PEAR">
       <exclude name="PEAR.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent" />
   </rule>
   

2. Or you mute down a specific error message, resulting in the rule actually being executed for potential other error messages :

   <rule ref="PEAR.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent.Incorrect">
       <severity>0</severity>
   </rule>