From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#48058: tab-width's docstring Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:53:27 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <874kfo26gt.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="000000000000178f1305c1245d04" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11348"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 48058@debbugs.gnu.org To: Gustavo Barros , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 30 00:54:09 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 1lcFXt-0002r8-8y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Thu, 29 Apr 2021 15:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:53:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874kfo26gt.fsf@gmail.com> 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:205210 Archived-At: --000000000000178f1305c1245d04 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" tags 48058 + patch thanks Gustavo Barros writes: >>> 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. 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