Re: Overriding the value of indent-tabs-mode in Emacs code

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/26/2016 01:11 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> In this particular case, the existing code uses tabs for indentation. So
> it is puzzling that you'd be troubled by a patch that sticks with that
> convention. Here, switching to all-spaces would make the patch harder to
> read.

I'm troubled by you overriding the project's convention. If you do it 
here, you must do it in other cases as well.

And the function in question contains both conventions already.

> > We're not "switching" to all-spaces.
> Yes, that's what I thought.

"Switching" implies we've had a single, different convention before.