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Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:53:39 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux)

goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com> writes:

> The mantra that things can always be customised implies observance to
> a single formatting scheme.  Legacy code does not even subscribe to
> that.  They only had simple editors.  If I introduce tabs with "C-q
> TAB", all those tabs get removed by emacs as soon as one presses
> return at the end of the line.
>
> Emacs is acting like a dictator.

So just turn of electric-indent-mode, right?  Because if you don't want
on-the-fly indentation, you shouldn't be using it?


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