Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117000: Untabify cl-macs.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 01:40:59 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> > But more importantly, as I already said,
> > this is the Emacs default, always has been.
> 
> So what? Untabify everything and set dir-locals for Emacs to set
> indent-tabs-mode to nil.

That's just part of the issue.  The other part is applying a patch
that was edited elsewhere, for example.

> >>> (It's an uphill battle you'll lose anyway, because many people, yours
> >>> truly included, have indent-tabs-mode set non-nil,
> >>
> >> Don't do that then.
> > 
> > We cannot control what everyone out there does.
> 
> No, we can only control what code gets into Emacs.

Not really, try looking through the sources to see the real-life mess.