Re: Whitespace cleanup

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> writes:

> On 22 August 2012 11:44, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> I, for one, would like to see the tabs replaced by spaces in the Lisp code that
>> is shipped.  It's not a big deal, but I invariably find myself later cleaning up
>> pieces in code of mine that might have parts originally copy+yanked from vanilla
>> code.
>>
>> But like I say, not a big deal at all.
>> `C-x h M-x untabify', and you're done.
>
> That only works after you figure out what the correct tab width should
> have been to begin with.
>
> On 22 August 2012 12:07, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> If an Elisp file requires a tab-width different from 8 to be indented
>> properly, that's a bug.
>
> The indentation offset is rarely 8, so I guess tabs get inserted only
> after 4 levels of indentation, creating a horrible mix.

If you use (a new enough) emacs to edit emacs sources tab-width is set
to 8 automatically.  So no problem here.