Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <B2F6DB0C-4EFE-4C56-8E7A-31820320CA02@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1192548367.3821.4.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu>

On 16 Oct 2007, at 11:26:07 AM, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:

> Instead of using "(setq indent-tabs-mode t)" use "(setq indent-tabs- 
> mode
> nil)".  This will force emacs to always use spaces to indent.

That's part of the problem to begin with: people are using both way of indentation.

I suggest this not be allowed, or that it be the only way of indenting.

However, 8 spaces per tab is a lot of wasted information to be bandying about.

Michael Witten

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