Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 06:52:16AM -0400, Felix wrote:
> > See also http://emacswiki.org/TabsAreEvil
> 
> It's the default behaviour of my emacs

That's *very* easy to fix and I don't understand why emacs has
such a silly default for lispy modes:

(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))
(add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook (lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))

> and it saves time (in the way I use the keyboard).

I don't really understand how.

If you mean you press the tab key to auto-indent, that still works even
if indent-tabs-mode is off (at least here it does).  You can also press
tab to jump to the start of a line even if it's already indented.

> And telling people how to layout the invisible part of their code
> is a waste of time.

I understand that, and that's why I didn't complain about it before
(also, my emacs happens to have the same tab width as yours so it's
 not as jarring to me as it was to the OP)

But since others have spoken up and this is easy to fix, I decided
to chime in.

Cheers,
Peter
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