From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Hikaru Ichijyo <ichijyo@macross.sdf.jp>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: spaces before tabs (yuck!)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:34:21 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6d02b24-1607-46cc-983b-c4f731bf55e5@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8xxh9l2ei9s.fsf@village.keycorner.org>
> The question of tabs versus spaces is so notorious, it has its own
> chapter in the Emacs manual.
Likewise, Emacs Wiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabsAreEvil.
That page also offers some alternatives and workarounds.
> Some people hate the confusion that tabs cause them so much that
> they set indent-tabs-mode nil to make it so only
> spaces are ever used, and there are no tabs anywhere.
Yes, and there is recent renewal of discussion about making this
the default behavior.
> I don't want to do that.
OK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-04 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-04 0:10 spaces before tabs (yuck!) Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-11-04 0:24 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-04 2:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-11-04 15:54 ` Kendall Shaw
2015-11-04 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-04 17:21 ` Kendall Shaw
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