bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.06.2022 08:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 03:19:01 +0000
> > From:  goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >   the Swiss army knife of text editors"<bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default?  Tabs should not be used.
> That depends on the major mode.  E.g., in text mode and its
> derivatives this is turned off.  But in programming modes, many
> languages accept TABs, so using them is not a bad idea, especially
> since this is a long-standing Emacs default.

It being a long-time default of ours has no effect on whether using tabs 
is a good idea (since Emacs is not particularly popular these days to 
affect global practive).

But you know my opinion on this anyway.