From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Whitespace cleanup, tab-width and religion.
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:00:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lkl2hasw.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fybafyis.fsf@lrde.org> (Michaël Cadilhac's message of "Wed\, 20 Dec 2006 15\:11\:07 +0100")
michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
> First, some facts:
> - Whitespace cleanup considers 8 (and only 8) spaces to be
> a tabulation, and discards the fact that `tab-width' could have been
> changed.
> - On the contrary, `tabify' uses `tab-width'.
That doesn't look right indeed.
Since whitespace-indent-regexp is already a defcustom, what's the
problem for you modifying that explicitly when you modify tab-width?
That's not a clean solution, so we should reconsider this after the
release. Will you remind us then?
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-20 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-20 14:11 Whitespace cleanup, tab-width and religion Michaël Cadilhac
2006-12-20 15:00 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2006-12-20 15:11 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-12-20 16:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-01-01 18:55 ` Rajesh Vaidheeswarran
2007-01-01 20:24 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-01-02 9:56 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-01-05 1:55 ` Rajesh Vaidheeswarran
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