From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The grand indentation unification project Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 16:05:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338062760 21595 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2012 20:06:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 20:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Hackney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 22:05:59 2012 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 1SYNFM-00030G-0w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 22:05:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYNFL-0005Ez-JI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60729) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYNFI-0005Eq-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYNFG-0004r4-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:34209) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYNFG-0004qz-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYNFD-0006sH-8o; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:05:47 -0400 X-Spook: Bletchley Park e-cash UFO COSCO Defcon Abu Ghraib X-Ran: !.}^c&[n+h<"sH,tJ3)i]_18MCeeTvCln5qdoir;#+#A~8&/%lDGu54,/|(hXI'R|#pU\Q X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Daniel Hackney's message of "Sat, 26 May 2012 15:45:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150652 Archived-At: Daniel Hackney wrote: > I propose adding to the `emacs-lisp-mode' section of ".dir-locals.el" in > the source root `(indent-tabs-mode . t)' We've been here before. Eg: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00820.html space-vs-tabs-vs-aliens doesn't matter, as long as it's indented to the right position. That's my opinion on this matter. > In any case, the current situation of inconsistent use of spaces and > TABs is IMO much worse than any of the consistent alternatives. It's completely irrelevant and a waste of time to even discuss it. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-01/msg00219.html etc, etc