From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: indent-tabs-mode default [was: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel] Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:06:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h7fcnmq0.fsf@posteo.net> <83tujbqg4j.fsf@gnu.org> <46353190-1190-495f-b15e-22980159b3ab@yandex.ru> <83y28mp0rb.fsf@gnu.org> <51a363db-fde7-791d-cf8d-98ac601d62ee@yandex.ru> <57ca4d78-2339-201d-edce-678c9b003a99@yandex.ru> <83bl5dsh8b.fsf@gnu.org> <8335qps8vs.fsf@gnu.org> <9471c28f-8eae-b555-ee86-9fffd6229937@yandex.ru> <83bl5ayyym.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgsu428b.fsf@gnus.org> <369cfa83-fb3d-d452-94b1-64dbd6dc0253@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21639"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, danflscr@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 06 05:11:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1mN52a-0005ST-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 05:11:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57782 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mN52Y-0001qr-Vj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mN4xu-0002K0-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mN4xt-0004r7-SM; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mN4xr-0004un-Df; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:06:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <369cfa83-fb3d-d452-94b1-64dbd6dc0253@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 3 Sep 2021 13:59:37 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274054 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > And having a theme to just make indent-tabs-mode behavior sane, that > would just be ridiculous. I've been using indent-tabs-mode = nil for enough time to conclude I personally would not object to making that the default. Would someone like to look up who objected to it before, and ask them to try setting it to nil for a month and see what cases actually cause them trouble? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)