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Re: Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
Re: Indenting with spaces and tabs in Emacs Lisp |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:50:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
Hi,
>> I've seen that in simple.el indentation is inconsistent, sometimes using
>> spaces only and sometimes tabs and spaces. Some files seem to have more
>> consistent indenting using tabs and spaces, though some other files use
>> only spaces.
>>
>> I thought that the convention was to use the tabs + spaces style, was I
>> wrong? I'm pretty sure this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't
>> find it.
>
> From .dir-locals.el:
>
> (emacs-lisp-mode . ((indent-tabs-mode . nil)
> (electric-quote-comment . nil)
> (electric-quote-string . nil)))
This is valid for files edited in the Emacs source tree. If they are
merged from somewhere else, like the Tramp files, this doesn't apply.
> Robert
Best regards, Michael.