Re: indent-tabs-mode

[Klaus Zeitler]

>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
    Nick> 
    Nick> Every application has to decide how it's going to display a tab.
    Nick> Emacs uses eight spaces by default but others use a different
    Nick> number.

I don't know of any application that doesn't work right with tabs set to the
size of eight spaces. IMHO it's changing the size, that is causing the
trouble. We have a few vi users here, that change the tab size (that is
probably their means of some kind of indentation) and this is causing problems
in some other editors (not in emacs I know, just one command and it looks ok).

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|  Klaus Zeitler      Lucent Technologies  |
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