From: goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Indentation with spaces
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:33:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1nSa0QRUilv-1bDwO14iTktsVVvkGK5Z4YmCRUQy2VEl-cydxtJo6_zDbkla_RGCnybukiWdu9YZaHdqGYOj9wsZArEK2AhrHk_ubYBrBYs=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5UyqT5KwTaE=4w_ND1GAOzieWCk3g60GJnZovJMrQ4-phg@mail.gmail.com>
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, June 9th, 2022 at 9:51 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As for TAB not inserting a literal TAB character,
> > > indentation is controlled by the major mode. I believe that
> > > for ELisp, the default indentation is just two spaces.
> > > (Don't quote me on that though.)
> >
> > Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not
> > be used.
>
>
> We say that today. I've been using some version of Emacs since the
> early 1980s. Before the appearance of indentation-sensitive languages
> like Python, inserting a literal TAB when the TAB key was pressed made
> sense.
>
> I suspect it's a case of "old habits die hard."
>
> Skip
Python is garbage as far as I am concerned. The designers thought it would be neat to give semantic meaning to whitespace. Why on earth would they give semantic meaning to something that cannot be seen? Who thought that was a good idea?
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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 [this message]
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
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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