Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook

[goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>]

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On Sunday, June 12th, 2022 at 9:36 AM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:


> On 12.06.2022 00:17, goncholden wrote:
>
> > I have tried that. You get encouraged it might work. Until you press return on the end of the line. Then emacs deletes all the tabs.
>
>
> Aaand you can disable 'electric-indent-mode' to get rid of this behavior.
>
> > Emacs should have a minor-mode or settings that only keep the highlighting for the specific major-mode, and allows the user
> > to format as one pleases.
>
>
> The general expectation is that our users's projects adhere to some
> common rules WRT indentation, with only a few parameters varying between
> them (which can be customized). When that holds, Emacs's way is way more
> efficient in practice.

That expectation is wrong for legacy code, particularly in fortran.

> And when one works on a rare exception, they can tweak their config
> accordingly. A minor mode could be helpful, I suppose, but the
> customizations I suggested are fairly easy to do already.

They are easy to do but they are not enough.  Because at some deep level emacs expectation users's projects to adhere to a sytle.  That only works for single person works or multi-person works who actually adhere to a style.  In this files, the style they adhere to relate only to naming conventions and that code is uppercase.  And obviously, that usual column position rules.