Re: [PATCH] TTY Support for ECMA-48 strike-through graphic rendition

[Stefan Monnier]

>     >> >>>>> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 22:17:08 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 
> said:
>     >> 
>     Eli> Please use our style of indentation in C source files (basically, 
> make
>     Eli> sure indent-tabs-mode is non-nil).
>     >> 
>     >> That is not reflected in our .dir-locals.el for C files (for elisp it
>     >> sets indent-tabs-mode to nil)
>
>     Eli> Because it's the default, I believe.  Also because we couldn't agree
>     Eli> on a mandatory setting at the time this setting in .dir-locals.el was
>     Eli> discussed.
>
> The same is true for tab-width, sentence-end-double-space and
> fill-column, yet we set those.

AFAIK there has never been disagreement about those (maybe some
squabbling about the precise value of `fill-column`, but in 99% of the
cases noone really notices if you use a slightly different setting).

Also those have effects which are much more tangible than the
TAB-vs-SPC.


        Stefan