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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274118 Archived-At: On 06.09.2021 06:06, Richard Stallman wrote: > > And having a theme to just make indent-tabs-mode behavior sane, that > > would just be ridiculous. > > I've been using indent-tabs-mode = nil for enough time to conclude > I personally would not object to making that the default. > > Would someone like to look up who objected to it before, and > ask them to try setting it to nil for a month and see what cases > actually cause them trouble? I'm afraid it's not a good question. If you look at bug#20322 or the latest discussion, people usually talk about inconveniencing *others* (all users that are not present in the discussion). Because every one who objected can personally easily customize indent-tabs-mode to t locally, and that will endure for a long time, without being affected by any changes in the default value in any future Emacs version. But as far as customizing it to nil goes, that's not generally a good suggestion because people who use tabs for indentation often do that due to coding style required at their current place of employment (and they often do not get a say in that).