From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
Cc: "55862@debbugs.gnu.org" <55862@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 17:41:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488530A55A00DDE063B7551F3A79@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e7a8804-681f-200e-3c9b-c4947d059fe5@yandex.ru>
> It being a long-time default of ours has no effect on whether using
> tabs is a good idea (since Emacs is not particularly popular these days to
> affect global practive).
>
> But you know my opinion on this anyway.
As long as reasons are being given, let me add this one:
People copy bits of code and paste that text into places
other than Emacs - online Q&A forums, email, etc.
TAB chars here and there due to `indent-tabs-mode' force
users to manually reformat the code - or at least to have
known about and thought to use `M-x untabify' beforehand.
This ex-Emacs use case is likely larger today than it was
decades ago. Defaulting the var to t just produces more
bother and annoyance, especially for newbies (who are
less likely to use `untabify').
Just one more reason why the current default is not ideal.
Not that posting this here will help. Except that it
might bring it to the attention of a few readers to whom
it might not have occurred.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-09 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-09 3:19 bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 12:40 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 13:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-09 13:34 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 13:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-09 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 1:00 ` Sean Whitton
2022-06-13 1:36 ` goncholden
2022-06-13 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-13 13:26 ` goncholden
2022-06-09 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 14:05 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 16:06 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-09 16:35 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 14:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-06-09 14:18 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 14:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-06-09 14:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-06-09 14:21 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 16:32 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 16:44 ` goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-09 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 17:41 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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