From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
Cc: 72808@debbugs.gnu.org, jaygkamat@gmail.com, 8.slashes@gmail.com
Subject: bug#72808: 30.0.90; editorconfig doesn't set tab_width to a default value
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:25:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv7zo9zpb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pmg-aquar-1261481-87le0mrqpn.fsf@cassou.me> (Damien Cassou's message of "Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:32:52 +0200")
> when a .editorconfig file assigns a value for "indent_size" and no
> value for "tab_width", I expect "tab_width" to default to the value of
> "indent_size" as described in the documentation [1]. Unfortunately,
Yes, I consciously disagreed with the standard here. IMO, this better
reflects Emacs's habitual behavior, so it makes more sense for Emacs users.
> Possible workarounds:
>
> 1. One can use MELPA's version of editorconfig instead of the builtin
> one; or
> 2. One can explicitly set "tab_width" in .editorconfig
Indeed, you can already get the "missing" behavior by setting
`indent_size` to `tab` and then setting `tab_width` to the desired
indentation size.
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2024-08-25 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-08-25 20:23 ` bug#72808: 30.0.90; editorconfig doesn't set tab_width to a default value Damien Cassou
2024-09-07 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-08 11:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-21 9:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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