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Re: Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp |
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Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:09:07 -0500 |
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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