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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Cc: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: indent-tabs-mode
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:30:10 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoslk59mzh.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vep15mpq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:51:34 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> If everyone on the Emacs project used a different tab stop, you'd very
>> quickly change your mind. That's the reality on any project that where
>> editors other than Emacs are used.
>
> That's irrelevant: In that case the problem doesn't come from
> indent-tabs-mode and isn't fixed (or even mitigated) by changing
> indent-tabs-mode.

Indeed.

If you want to avoid this problem, the right thing is to specify a
specific tab-width or no-tabs-allowed as part of the project's coding
style rules.

-Miles
-- 
Is it true that nothing can be known?  If so how do we know this?  -Woody Allen

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-09  0:19 indent-tabs-mode Nick Roberts
2006-08-09  0:34 ` indent-tabs-mode Giorgos Keramidas
2006-08-09  2:40 ` indent-tabs-mode Miles Bader
2006-08-09  3:45   ` indent-tabs-mode Nick Roberts
2006-08-09  4:58     ` indent-tabs-mode Miles Bader
2006-08-09  5:11       ` indent-tabs-mode Nick Roberts
2006-08-09  5:34         ` indent-tabs-mode Miles Bader
2006-08-09  6:13           ` indent-tabs-mode Nick Roberts
2006-08-09  7:13             ` indent-tabs-mode Miles Bader
2006-08-09 11:09             ` indent-tabs-mode Klaus Zeitler
2006-08-09 17:25               ` indent-tabs-mode Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-10  5:27                 ` indent-tabs-mode Miles Bader
2006-08-10 15:11                   ` indent-tabs-mode Stefan Monnier
2006-08-10 15:22                     ` indent-tabs-mode Aidan Kehoe
2006-08-09 19:15 ` indent-tabs-mode Richard Stallman
2006-08-09 22:29   ` indent-tabs-mode Bill Wohler
2006-08-10  2:51     ` indent-tabs-mode Stefan Monnier
2006-08-10  5:30       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-08-10 16:27     ` indent-tabs-mode Richard Stallman
2006-08-10 16:45       ` indent-tabs-mode Bill Wohler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-09 13:06 indent-tabs-mode Robert Thorpe

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