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bug#20322: 25.0.50; indent-tabs-mode should default to nil


From: Wolfgang Jenkner
Subject: bug#20322: 25.0.50; indent-tabs-mode should default to nil
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:31:42 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (berkeley-unix)

On Wed, Apr 15 2015, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

>> If your indentation rules use an indentation step of 2, you'd likely get
>> many more lines that start with SPC regardless of indent-tabs-mode
>> (just because most lines of code are less indented than 8 columns).
>
> I don't actually recall seeing code intentionally mixing tabs and
> spaces like that, ever, before looking at Emacs's sources.

This is also the traditional (and POSIX) behaviour of vi.  For example,
search for "autoindent, ai" (without the quotes) in

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ex.html





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