Re: Indentation with spaces

[goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>]

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On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 9:45 PM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:


> Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> > > Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not
> > > be used.
> >
> > We say that today. I've been using some version of Emacs
> > since the early 1980s. Before the appearance of
> > indentation-sensitive languages like Python a literal TAB
> > when the TAB key was pressed made sense.
>
>
> Okay, why is that?
>
> I have written some Python and while I don't like the
> "indentation sensitiveness" the discussion can go both ways and
> it's up to them to decide what to do with their language.

They are idiots turning others into idiots like them.

> But how does that influence anything and in particular
> other languages?
>
> And besides I have spaces in my Python as well:
>
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/sth/sth.py
>
> Just like in Lisp:
>
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/comic-book-insult.el
>
> The only exception is makefiles
>
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/Makefile
>
> That I always thought was because that make(1) (GNU make)
> program explicitely looked for TABs so in that case it was
> enforced. I never asked why and didn't think about finding out
> either, some leftover from the dinosaur age probable that one
> just accepted ...
>
> Explain please ...
>
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