From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the overloading of `tab-width'
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:28:04 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206162328.g5GNS4p12593@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1024162700.14414.578.camel@space-ghost> (message from Colin Walters on 15 Jun 2002 13:38:20 -0400)
Now, personally, I find this irritating in the extreme. If I nest about
four blocks, with a long function name or two, the lines begin to wrap
very quickly. One thing I do like about the GNU Coding style is that it
says to perform indentation by 2 columns.
Unfortunately, believe it or not, Emacs gives me no way to deal with
this.
What does it mean to "deal with this"?
In general, if you don't like the way a file is indented, the only way
you can see it differently is to reindent it. That means changing the
text. I don't see that it is particularly useful to try to avoid that
consequence in this one special case.
I think this problem came about because packages started using
`tab-width' to convert between actual TAB and space characters.
According to its docstring, it is only for display purposes, but CC mode
and functions like `tabify' use it for other purposes.
Everything that affects how wide characters are in display also
affects the indentation functions.
I don't think this feature makes sense, and I don't think it should be
installed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-16 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-15 17:38 the overloading of `tab-width' Colin Walters
2002-06-15 18:21 ` Colin Walters
2002-06-15 18:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-16 23:28 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=200206162328.g5GNS4p12593@aztec.santafe.edu \
--to=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).