From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overriding the value of indent-tabs-mode in Emacs code Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 15:36:53 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <825479b2-7f46-375f-29fe-64d36158a1d9@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87bn3z4l9i.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <1444321464004323@web25h.yandex.ru> <83h9do67pp.fsf@gnu.org> <21f6198c-a2fc-365f-caf7-79fad5027f1c@yandex.ru> <32b48032-8b30-d1d4-259c-8715aad3e7b8@cs.ucla.edu> <86c6d05c-a37f-e223-d0d2-af63d09ed0cc@yandex.ru> <57454B75.6070506@cs.ucla.edu> <794c0e07-4a07-b19e-5faa-68b4b18322e0@yandex.ru> <1ab04334-5405-d5e2-6f3b-edd1f053ddda@yandex.ru> <16a64a9c-4053-9a49-01db-e3f2ea03fd0e@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464215864 3184 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2016 22:37:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 22:37:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 00:37:36 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b5hQl-0008OQ-0a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 00:37:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5hQk-00080n-8m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 18:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5hQD-0007yr-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 18:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5hQ7-00038x-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 18:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:46422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5hQ7-00038t-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 18:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5848D16139C; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id RspEBR0E2XmE; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC441613A2; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:36:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 0ifVF3N79U5a; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 683AC16139B; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:36:53 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 In-Reply-To: <16a64a9c-4053-9a49-01db-e3f2ea03fd0e@yandex.ru> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204013 Archived-At: On 05/25/2016 03:18 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > >>> We're not "switching" to all-spaces. >> Yes, that's what I thought. > > "Switching" implies we've had a single, different convention before. > > I didn't intend that implication. What I meant was that we're not switching all the Elisp sources to use only spaces to indent. At least, that is my understanding. In this particular case, switching to all-spaces would have made the patch harder to read. I read a lot of patches and perhaps are more sensitive to this issue.