From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Markus Triska Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment? Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:10:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87fycvsh1r.fsf@gmx.at> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162896033 17190 80.91.229.2 (7 Nov 2006 10:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 07 11:40:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhONb-0001x0-F7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:40:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhONa-0006nZ-OU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newshunter!cosy.sbg.ac.at!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed2.utanet.at!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xhm43W0ZMdTAdggtVKxjFORoiAY= Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: v228.demo.tuwien.ac.at Original-X-Trace: 1162893775 tunews.univie.ac.at 11868 128.131.204.228 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@tuwien.ac.at Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142950 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38568 Archived-At: Anders Kaseorg writes: > which, of course, might not be so "optimal" to someone with a different > tab width: UNIX convention for TAB format effector is to move to columns that are multiples of 8. People breaking that are on their own. > You may prefer spaces or tabs for indentation, and that's fine, but you > have to agree that using tabs for alignment in this way is broken. It's not. How the TAB character is interpreted has nothing at all to do with your preferred indent increment. Best wishes! -- Markus Triska