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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indentation with spaces
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:35:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgiklpid.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edzwlt69.fsf@dataswamp.org> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:16:46 +0200")

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> It's lame, inexact typewriter stuff. Try arrange output data
> from some shell tool with tabs and see how robust it'll be.

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

> 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.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-10 11:35 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
2022-06-10 10:20             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 10:16           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-10 11:35             ` Po Lu [this message]
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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