As the author of whitespace.el, it was my intent to keep tabs at 8
characters. Please do not make any changes to whitespace.el without my
explicit approval.

To be clear, from whitespace.el's point of view, it is not relevant what the
tab-width is set at. People set tab-widths to whatever they please on their
favorite editors. However, there is no way to portably move the definition
of TAB across people and platforms, other than the value of 8 spaces. That
is why this is a religious argument, and that is also why it is documented
as such.

rv

On 12/20/06, Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> wrote:
>
> michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>
> >> Since whitespace-indent-regexp is already a defcustom, what's the
> >> problem for you modifying that explicitly when you modify tab-width?
> >
> > Well, first because the contradiction between w-cleanup and tabify
> > would stay.
>
> I agreed to fixing that part (somehow) after the release.
>
> >
> > Also, putting w-i-regexp in a  Local Variable part produces a warning.
> > And I don't really want to  force a certain value of this variable but
> > just the amount of spaces it counts.
> >
>
> Sounds like whitespace-indent-regexp should be marked as a safe local
> variable.  Unless it is risky somehow ... ??
>
> --
> Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
>
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