From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indentation with spaces
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:16:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edzwlt69.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zgimm0f8.fsf@yahoo.com
Po Lu wrote:
>> Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not
>> be used.
>
> What is the problem with using tabs for indentation? I use
> them to indent both C-like languages and Emacs Lisp.
>
> At my day job, we prefer to indent code with tabs as well.
It's lame, inexact typewriter stuff. Try arrange output data
from some shell tool with tabs and see how robust it'll be.
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 ...
And there is no reason to do, it so at best it gets more
complicated for parsers and stuff for no good reason.
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-10 10:16 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 [this message]
2022-06-10 11:35 ` Po Lu
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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