From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:06:17 +0300 Organization: Private Message-ID: <3awb7zw6.fsf@blue.sea.net> References: <634393B0-734A-4884-93E3-42F7D3CB157F@mit.edu> <471476B7.5050105@users.sourceforge.net> <8c5c35580710160204s5a4f9fb3j68c0a86c4d080cb7@mail.gmail.com> <47148F72.1090602@users.sourceforge.net> <1192548367.3821.4.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 20:29:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhrAi-0004cH-5O for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:29:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935239AbXJPS2r (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:28:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935068AbXJPS2q (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:28:46 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39523 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935233AbXJPS2p (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:28:45 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ihpzg-0002gL-7R for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:14:12 +0000 Received: from a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([81.197.175.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:14:12 +0000 Received: from jari.aalto by a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:14:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/rt/5hLA43IPiMD5vTOCCScXbXQ= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Tue 2007-10-16 Michael Witten * Message-Id: B2F6DB0C-4EFE-4C56-8E7A-31820320CA02 AT mit.edu > On 16 Oct 2007, at 11:26:07 AM, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: > >> Instead of using "(setq indent-tabs-mode t)" use "(setq indent-tabs- >> mode >> nil)". This will force emacs to always use spaces to indent. > > However, 8 spaces per tab is a lot of wasted > information to be bandying about. Spaces are guaranteed to interpreted correctly in all environments. TABs are the source of too many problems. Jari -- Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines