From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overriding the value of indent-tabs-mode in Emacs code Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 15:11:09 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <87bn3z4l9i.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <1444321464004323@web25h.yandex.ru> <83h9do67pp.fsf@gnu.org> <21f6198c-a2fc-365f-caf7-79fad5027f1c@yandex.ru> <32b48032-8b30-d1d4-259c-8715aad3e7b8@cs.ucla.edu> <86c6d05c-a37f-e223-d0d2-af63d09ed0cc@yandex.ru> <57454B75.6070506@cs.ucla.edu> <794c0e07-4a07-b19e-5faa-68b4b18322e0@yandex.ru> <1ab04334-5405-d5e2-6f3b-edd1f053ddda@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464214293 12438 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2016 22:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 22:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 00:11:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b5h1Q-00022C-H8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 00:11:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35430 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5h1P-0003nO-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 18:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5h1K-0003n5-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 18:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5h1G-0005xF-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 18:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:44650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5h1F-0005wj-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 18:11:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01670161393; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id j22yp90hH-6y; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D65D16139C; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:11:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id J2WiA2b3PBvr; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 457CA161393; Wed, 25 May 2016 15:11:12 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 In-Reply-To: <1ab04334-5405-d5e2-6f3b-edd1f053ddda@yandex.ru> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204011 Archived-At: On 05/25/2016 03:00 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > > It's not caused by using spaces for indentation (that would be > preposterous), but by using different conventions in the same file. In this particular case, the existing code uses tabs for indentation. So it is puzzling that you'd be troubled by a patch that sticks with that convention. Here, switching to all-spaces would make the patch harder to read. > We're not "switching" to all-spaces. Yes, that's what I thought.