From: goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 55862@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:21:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <khyLXkjuQ1qF4s129DB9jEi8zq7dxyqZCvV0abRJIDl-wD4BFURM2nKWHjzUzstP7VxEmO8LOdTUUDSvjgxTLl3Ew0PKxROQ2HyNfI77nOo=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e7a8804-681f-200e-3c9b-c4947d059fe5@yandex.ru>
------- Original Message -------
On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 2:10 AM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 09.06.2022 08:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 03:19:01 +0000
> > > From: goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > > the Swiss army knife of text editors"bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > >
> > > Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not be used.
> > > That depends on the major mode. E.g., in text mode and its
> > > derivatives this is turned off. But in programming modes, many
> > > languages accept TABs, so using them is not a bad idea, especially
> > > since this is a long-standing Emacs default.
>
>
> It being a long-time default of ours has no effect on whether using tabs
> is a good idea (since Emacs is not particularly popular these days to
> affect global practive).
>
> But you know my opinion on this anyway.
This has been a continual problem with emacs as it mostly caters for passed-over old folks stuck in the eigthies.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-09 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-09 3:19 bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 12:40 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 13:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-09 13:34 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 13:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-09 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 14:05 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 16:06 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-09 16:35 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 14:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-06-09 14:18 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 14:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-06-09 14:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-06-09 14:21 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-06-09 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 16:32 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 16:44 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 17:41 ` Drew Adams
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