From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gustavo Barros Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#48058: tab-width's docstring Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:14:59 -0300 Message-ID: <874kfo26gt.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87a6pj50u6.fsf@gmail.com> <83eeevj0kt.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnsnkcz1.fsf@gmail.com> <8335vbixea.fsf@gnu.org> <87tunrkbdi.fsf@gmail.com> <83y2d3hhfe.fsf@gnu.org> <83pmydc7u6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="819"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.4.15; emacs 27.2 Cc: Stefan Kangas , 48058@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 29 22:16:21 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lcD5B-00005k-Je for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:15:04 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <83pmydc7u6.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:205202 Archived-At: On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 14:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Stefan Kangas >> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:05:39 -0500 >> Cc: Gustavo Barros , 48058@debbugs.gnu.org >> >> I agree that the docstring is somewhat confusing, as it seems to rule >> out that this variable is ever used to control indentation. But some >> major modes do precisely that. >> >> Perhaps we could change the docstring note along the lines of: >> >> NOTE: Some major modes use this variable to determine an >> indentation >> step, but Emacs itself only uses this to display the width of a >> TAB >> character. >> >> Would something like that make sense? > > Something like that, yes. Perhaps just making the original text less > definitive will do as well. > Just chiming in to say I'm following the discussion attentively, but have nothing to add. Both Stefan's and Eli's suggestions look like improvements to me. And I'll be happy with what you come up with. Best regards, Gustavo.