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bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default
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goncholden |
Subject: |
bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:05:49 +0000 |
A 2016 survey by Felipe Hoffa concluded that spaces far outpace tabs in every
major programming language with the exceptions of C, one of the very oldest
programming languages, and Google's Go.
It is worth reconsidering the decision to stick with tabs in future. I do not
know of any mechanism to show (with some symbol) the beginning of each tab and
the end of a line when space happens at the end of a line.
https://hoffa.medium.com/400-000-github-repositories-1-billion-files-14-terabytes-of-code-spaces-or-tabs-7cfe0b5dd7fd#.o7n8zeezx
------- Original Message -------
On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 1:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:40:35 +0000
> > From: goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com
> > Cc: 55862@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > Of course, arguing about defaults is many times futile, since changing
> > > them is very easy.
> >
> > It is not so easy because one also has to make the change based on major
> > mode.
>
>
> Every major mode has a mode hook, and the usual way to customize a
> mode is in that hook.
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, goncholden, 2022/06/08
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/09
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/09
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default,
goncholden <=
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/09
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, Drew Adams, 2022/06/09
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, goncholden, 2022/06/09
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/06/09
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, goncholden, 2022/06/09
- bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/06/09
bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/06/09