From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204998271 21756 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 17:44:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 18:44:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JY35y-0002da-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:44:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY35Q-0003JS-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:43:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY31p-00073C-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY31n-00070h-Jd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY31n-00070T-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JY31n-0002cO-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JY31m-0006mQ-Lb; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:10 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:33:24 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91735 Archived-At: Is there a convention on whether tabs or spaces should be used to indent Emacs's source files, or is it up to the maintainer of a given file? I don't want to propose one or the other, just ask if there's a standard. You may as well always tabs, since they save space, and avoiding them in any one file does no good. Texinfo files are an exception; they are input for TeX so they should not have tabs. Texinfo mode takes care of that.