Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've seen that in simple.el indentation is inconsistent, sometimes using
> spaces only and sometimes tabs and spaces.  Some files seem to have more
> consistent indenting using tabs and spaces, though some other files use
> only spaces.
>
> I thought that the convention was to use the tabs + spaces style, was I
> wrong?  I'm pretty sure this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't
> find it.

From .dir-locals.el:

 (emacs-lisp-mode . ((indent-tabs-mode . nil)
                     (electric-quote-comment . nil)
                     (electric-quote-string . nil)))

(I couldn't find this documented either).

Robert