Re: indent-tabs-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Klaus Zeitler <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:09:52 +0200
> 
> >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
>     Nick> 
>     Nick> Every application has to decide how it's going to display a tab.
>     Nick> Emacs uses eight spaces by default but others use a different
>     Nick> number.
> 
> I don't know of any application that doesn't work right with tabs set to the
> size of eight spaces. IMHO it's changing the size, that is causing the
> trouble.

Right.  So, if we are to change anything in the related defaults (and
I'm not saying that we necessarily should), at most we should reset
indent-tabs-mode to nil when the user customizes tab-width to a
non-default value.