Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 17:23 UTC
Message-ID: <4714F3A2.3080103@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <1192548367.3821.4.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu>

Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:

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> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:16 +0200, Adam Piatyszek wrote:
>> And if one change the tab size, it will result in a messy alignment in
>> line 5.
> 
> Which is why one should never should change the tab size from anything
> but 8.
>

I have mine set to 4. With an 11.2" screen and 1024x768 resolution, it's not as if I've got much choice if I want to be able to see anything on the screen. Some whitespace-damaged places look ugly, but it's usually not too bad.

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>> I guess there is no ideal solution for this in Emacs.
> 
> Instead of using "(setq indent-tabs-mode t)" use "(setq indent-tabs-mode
> nil)".  This will force emacs to always use spaces to indent.
>

... but don't do this when hacking on Linux or git. Thanks

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