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Re: tool-tip default


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: tool-tip default
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:28:01 +0200 (IST)

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>    > ;;; Cause indentation to insert spaces instead of tabs
>    > (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
> 
>    Why?
> 
> When I edit text with tabs, my interword spacing gets screwed up --
> often too much; worse, too little, with no space between two words.
> Text with spaces is easily predictable.

Indenting with spaces might be okay in text modes, but I don't think it 
should be the default in editing source code.

In any case, I think this is controvercial.



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