Re: Indentation with spaces

[goncholden]

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On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 1:37 AM, goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com> 
wrote:


> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, June 9th, 2022 at 9:51 PM, Skip Montanaro 
> skip.montanaro@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > > > As for TAB not inserting a literal TAB character,
> > > > indentation is controlled by the major mode. I believe that
> > > > for ELisp, the default indentation is just two spaces.
> > > > (Don't quote me on that though.)
> > >
> > > Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not
> > > be used.
> >
> > We say that today. I've been using some version of Emacs since the
> > early 1980s. Before the appearance of indentation-sensitive languages
> > like Python, inserting a literal TAB when the TAB key was pressed made
> > sense.
> >
> > I suspect it's a case of "old habits die hard."
>
>
> Quite right and unfortunate Skip.

Is there a way to show a symbol delineating the location and number of tabs?