Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> But anyway, the point is that there's a lot of code using spaces. If
> there's a real interest in using only tabs, I'd suggest start adding
> indent-tabs-mode cookies to local variables sections.

I very much prefer spaces, because they're diff-safe (for example, in
commit emails).

With TABs, an unlucky indentation boundary can cause code to jump many
display columns to the right, due to the "+"/"-" column along the left
edge of the diff.  This makes reading diffs of TAB-indented code a dicey
game.

-Karl