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Re: tool-tip default


From: William M. Perry
Subject: Re: tool-tip default
Date: 07 Nov 2000 10:26:18 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (GTK)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> 
> >    > ;;; Cause indentation to insert spaces instead of tabs
> >    > (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
> > 
> >    Why?
> > 
> > When I edit text with tabs, my interword spacing gets screwed up --
> > often too much; worse, too little, with no space between two words.
> > Text with spaces is easily predictable.
> 
> Indenting with spaces might be okay in text modes, but I don't think it 
> should be the default in editing source code.
> 
> In any case, I think this is controvercial.

No its not - its just plain wrong. :)

-bp



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