From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117000: Untabify cl-macs.el
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:38:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tx9ncc29.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5354C519.9090005@dancol.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:13:29 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > Why untabify at all? Using tabs and spaces is the default GNU coding
> > style, so why should we stray from that?
>
> In Lisp code, using tabs makes no sense: code is frequently lined up
> precisely, so you get a mixture of tabs and spaces anyway, making it
> impossible to use a different tab-width. Why would you want to use tabs
> at all?
Tabs make the file smaller. But more importantly, as I already said,
this is the Emacs default, always has been.
> > (It's an uphill battle you'll lose anyway, because many people, yours
> > truly included, have indent-tabs-mode set non-nil,
>
> Don't do that then.
We cannot control what everyone out there does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 8:38 UTC|newest]
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2014-04-21 0:28 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r117000: Untabify cl-macs.el Daniel Colascione
2014-04-21 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-21 7:13 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-21 8:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-04-21 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-04-21 8:40 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-21 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-21 12:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-04-21 16:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-04-21 18:17 ` Josh
2014-04-21 18:22 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-21 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-21 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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