Re: Indentation with spaces

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Po Lu wrote:

> Where did I say people should use tabs to print data?

I don't know, you said "tabs are very convenient when printing
data" or something?

But what are you printing with them then ... tabs?

>> As for source you can't align with any hope of precision
>> since some other dude will have another tab width setting,
>> so then he will arrange it the way he thinks it should
>> look, and this "change" to the source rings all the little
>> bells and so on ...
>
> We have a single tab width setting for all code. And it's
> very easy to put `tab-width' in the local variables section
> of a file.

Easy but ugly since interface metadata shouldn't clutter
source files ...

And they should do so even less when there is no gain doing so
either, right?

The TAB key on the keyboard is one of my favorite keys and
I often do iteration with that and the so-called backtab which
is S-TAB. See this for ERC which is cool if I may, don't know
if they liked it enough or what happened ...

  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/erc/erc-iterate.el

Note that it doesn't iterate the same things! (Type of things.)

B)

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