Re: Gitlab Migration

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Sat,  4 Sep 2021 at 09:46, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>>> (setq-default tab-width 4)
> [...]
>> I could be wrong, but last I checked there was either no consensus on this
>> value among editors, or 8 was still popular enough.
>
> My religion tells me that $DEITY has clearly specified TABs to have
> a width of 8.  But of late, I've found heretics using 4 to be arguably
> more frequent than the true believers.
>
> In Python they survive by using an indentation style that makes the TAB
> width non-significant (i.e. every line is indented exclusively with
> TABs).
>
>
>         Stefan

That's true, but the Python scriptures basically instruct you to set
`indent-tabs-mode' to nil:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces