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From: goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indentation with spaces
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:44:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ExlSDhd0QAoOgcUQUnVRpxoVTlLeKv4pAu5FwiFGf4DLNss16liXojIQQI2QlUkM7C2U4gdv7BSycPKuX945-h3HfXcvLExpqY2wA9LIao=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgimm0f8.fsf@yahoo.com>

It is not wrong to use tabs but creates problems as most tabs and trailing
spaces in emacs cannot be seen or easily displayed.  There is also the problem
that things could look different on other people’s computers.  It is a shame
than proposing a change makes a flame war, as consistency should be the preferred
choice.


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------- Original Message -------
On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 1:27 AM, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:


> Emanuel Berg incal@dataswamp.org writes:
>
> > Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not
> > be used.
>
>
> What is the problem with using tabs for indentation?
> I use them to indent both C-like languages and Emacs Lisp.
>
> At my day job, we prefer to indent code with tabs as well.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-09 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-08 22:21 Indentation with spaces goncholden via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-06-08 22:52 ` Skip Montanaro
2022-06-08 23:40   ` goncholden
2022-06-09  1:57     ` Skip Montanaro
2022-06-09  3:08       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-09  3:12         ` goncholden
2022-06-09  3:17           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-09 12:01             ` goncholden
2022-06-10 10:02               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-09  9:51         ` Skip Montanaro
2022-06-09 12:33           ` goncholden
2022-06-09 18:43             ` Lele Gaifax
2022-06-10  9:57             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 10:29             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 18:43               ` goncholden
2022-06-11  4:37               ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-11  5:38                 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-11  6:16               ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-09 13:37           ` goncholden
2022-06-09 13:49             ` goncholden
2022-06-09 16:06               ` tomas
2022-06-10 10:08               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10  9:45           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 17:57             ` goncholden
2022-06-10 18:08               ` tomas
2022-06-10 18:12                 ` goncholden
2022-06-10 18:33                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 18:46                     ` goncholden
2022-06-10 18:40                   ` tomas
2022-06-10 18:53                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 19:05                       ` goncholden
2022-06-10 19:27                         ` goncholden
2022-06-11  0:56                       ` goncholden
2022-06-10 18:29               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-09 13:27         ` Po Lu
2022-06-09 15:44           ` goncholden [this message]
2022-06-10 10:20             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 10:16           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 11:35             ` Po Lu
2022-06-10 18:26               ` goncholden
2022-06-11  0:57                 ` Po Lu
2022-06-11  1:05                   ` goncholden
2022-06-11  1:17                     ` Po Lu
2022-06-11  1:33                       ` goncholden
2022-06-11  1:36                         ` goncholden
2022-06-11  7:38                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-11  7:44                             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-11  8:26                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-11  7:57                             ` goncholden
2022-06-11  8:27                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-11  9:07                                 ` goncholden
2022-06-11 10:10                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-11 15:43                                   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-06-11 20:31                                     ` goncholden
2022-06-12  2:21                                       ` Drew Adams
2022-06-12  3:08                                         ` goncholden
2022-06-12  6:42                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-11  1:49                       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-11  2:05                         ` goncholden
2022-06-10 23:01               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-11  0:00                 ` goncholden
2022-06-11  7:31                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-11  0:58                 ` Po Lu
2022-06-11  1:41                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-09 19:01         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-06-09 20:16           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-06-09 20:20             ` goncholden
2022-06-11  5:16             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-11  5:33               ` tomas
2022-06-11  5:44                 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-11  5:51               ` goncholden
2022-06-11 15:43               ` Drew Adams
2022-06-12  4:45                 ` RE: [External] : " Christopher Dimech
2022-06-13  5:04                 ` [External] : " Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 10:29           ` reinventing the wheel but not faculty, libraries (was: Re: Indentation with spaces) Emanuel Berg
2022-06-09  5:30     ` Indentation with spaces Eli Zaretskii

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