From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: goncholden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indentation with spaces Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:05:02 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87zgimm0f8.fsf@yahoo.com> <87edzwlt69.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87zgiklpid.fsf@yahoo.com> <874k0skoey.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o7z0j8xf.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o7z0t1dn.fsf@dataswamp.org> Reply-To: goncholden Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19710"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 11 04:05:46 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nzqVW-0004w7-EH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:05:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51886 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzqVV-0003Jz-C7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzqV1-0003Jq-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-4319.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.19]:46353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzqUy-0004Pu-Pb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:05:14 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1654913110; x=1655172310; bh=QK5EPOx0q+qqEl5HMuEDOr5cWkTGS5TswOUVgUIggeQ=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: References:Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To: Feedback-ID:Message-ID; b=DcppRRTDu+fUOFBpyIr4LI93VP++U+duYWwHKM1LU5t3L9V6MWkTsB0Jm5jk1iJT9 6KQ6stjzhYNgZ/7wh8EnhMhPDa7lBoeurmgBwouwYFbbcFpQDWb4j68CqcQuH98d5F xQGAjwyUvLuYaIwr38jSlQc6Rmx7eegpRnRjDAtF3dYRLRaSFmpav4ZHH54qp9LCtw nd+/hAMuCwv2bEaoaspsCu4Sa5uiuG623Y8+bgzIQcDvHSd4SFGmqueyqYAs1a4WxN twkSeGptBYbvr8JxTF7SxJQEpBp9oi3kMA24ZpI3j6So3D2uyacIAzda4iZlUbQsUr fhCNlAcj/0wFw== In-Reply-To: <87o7z0t1dn.fsf@dataswamp.org> Feedback-ID: 43053548:user:proton Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.43.19; envelope-from=goncholden@protonmail.com; helo=mail-4319.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137654 Archived-At: ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, June 11th, 2022 at 1:49 PM, Emanuel Berg = wrote: > Po Lu wrote: > > > Then I guess they aren't popular enough for them to be > > a problem at work. > > > Why do tabs even exist? Does that situation or problem apply > today and if so do tabs solve the problem better > than whitespaces? Spaces provide greater flexibility as indentation can change by context rat= her than using a fixed width for all files. > If not respool to: comp.hist.dustbin > > -- > underground experts united > https://dataswamp.org/~incal