From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20322: 25.0.50; indent-tabs-mode should default to nil Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 05:55:17 +0300 Message-ID: <5531C795.7040006@yandex.ru> References: <861tjn3069.fsf@yandex.ru> <83618ydcav.fsf@gnu.org> <552D26D1.2040305@yandex.ru> <83lhhubudm.fsf@gnu.org> <552D36CE.6040105@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429325784 2215 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2015 02:56:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 02:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20322@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 18 04:56:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjIvS-0001aZ-BK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([82.102.93.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ch2sm5057561wib.18.2015.04.17.19.55.18 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:55:19 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/36.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101661 Archived-At: On 04/17/2015 08:22 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote: > http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech-tabsspaces > "After millennia of heated debate, mercifully, at long last, we have an > answer. Most developers prefer tabs to spaces." Already seen this. I'm inclined to take it with a pound of salt, for several reasons: - Have you participated in it? I'm a heavy SO user, and I've only found out about it after the results were published. So, a certain amount of bias has to be assumed. - If the question was "what do you personally prefer", it doesn't necessarily reflect the state of the projects the surveyees are actually working on. - For all we know, the majority of respondents came from PHP, VB.NET, or some other proprietary platforms which Emacs does not support directly. > Yes, the data also shows that experienced developers do prefer spaces > over tabs, but the matter is far from clear. Some of the less experienced ones might also be answering a different question. Look at the subscript (in brackets) here: http://jarrodoverson.com/blog/spaces-vs-tabs/