From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode? Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:14:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wrz0ittg.fsf@mithlond.arda> <87fx5d7tr9.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265596912 16821 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2010 02:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:41:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 08 03:41:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NeJZN-0007aY-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:41:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45960 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NeJZM-0004fi-K7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:41:48 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe23.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uEY2CMwZjYpY4KMXJ3/pjeBHscw= Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:14:49 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176662 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71731 Archived-At: > If everyone you had to work with used tabs, then it would be possible to > realise one of the great benefits of tabs. That is, we could all have > the amount of indent that we want, 2 spaces, 4, 8 10 whatever and it > wouldn't matter. That works for indentations such as if (foo) { blabla } where indentation is always relative to previous indentation plus or minus some fixed number of columns (typically "one tab"). But it doesn't in cases such as foofunc(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4) where the indentation of the second line is aligned with a particular place in the code, so that if you use TABs for this part, it will only be properly indentated if you use the same TAB width as was used when the line was originally indented. Stefan