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Re: Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:09:07 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I think the general understanding is that there is no consistent pattern
> of spaces vs. tabs+spaces in effect, and that this is not an important
> thing.
>
> Way back in history, tabs+spaces was, I believe, universal, since it
> saved on characters when the amount of RAM and disk space were a minute
> fraction of today's.
>
> I would ask, however, that a systematic attempt to convert to a
> consistent spaces only is NOT made.  This fouls up diffs, giving the
> impression of change where there is none.

100% agreed.


        Stefan




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