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Re: indent-tabs-mode
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: indent-tabs-mode |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:13:48 +0900 |
Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
> Every application has to decide how it's going to display a tab. Emacs
> uses eight spaces by default but others use a different number.
8 is not an arbitrary value, it's pretty much the standard.
> I've noticed it in diffs where the source has tabs and appears different
> e.g in the mail archives.
This is due to users who use a different setting when they edit a file;
in order to get rid of _that_ problem, you're going to have to convince
everybody to change their setting, and morever, _modify_ every existing
source file. That's a nightmare for merging/maintenance, and isn't
going to (shouldn't) happen.
> > Those commands do not do anything special, they simply do what
> > indent-tabs-mode tells them to do; if indent-tabs-mode is t, they will
> > insert tabs.
>
> Since they all seem to insert spaces, I think this either says that nil would
> be a sensible default for indent-tabs-mode, or it doesn't really matter.
They do not insert spaces by default. If they are for you, that means
you've changed some setting.
-Miles
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- indent-tabs-mode, Nick Roberts, 2006/08/08
- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Giorgos Keramidas, 2006/08/08
- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Miles Bader, 2006/08/08
- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Nick Roberts, 2006/08/08
- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Miles Bader, 2006/08/09
- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Nick Roberts, 2006/08/09
- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Miles Bader, 2006/08/09
- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Nick Roberts, 2006/08/09
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- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Miles Bader, 2006/08/10
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- Re: indent-tabs-mode, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/08/10
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