From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:09:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5zt3tssf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20190228101822.GA4686@ACM
> I think the general understanding is that there is no consistent pattern
> of spaces vs. tabs+spaces in effect, and that this is not an important
> thing.
>
> Way back in history, tabs+spaces was, I believe, universal, since it
> saved on characters when the amount of RAM and disk space were a minute
> fraction of today's.
>
> I would ask, however, that a systematic attempt to convert to a
> consistent spaces only is NOT made. This fouls up diffs, giving the
> impression of change where there is none.
100% agreed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-28 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-28 8:38 Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp Nicolas Petton
2019-02-28 9:44 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-28 17:50 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-28 10:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-28 23:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-02-28 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=jwv5zt3tssf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org \
--to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.