Re: tabs in source code

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On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:42 -0700, Luke Kanies wrote:
> I'd have to say that my main hate in this space is stupid Emacs,  
> which (by default, from what I can tell) uses 4 spaces for the first  
> tab and a full tab for the second tab.  It's absolutely evil.

I've no idea where that's come from because Emacs (at least GNU Emacs)
certainly doesn't do that by default. By default it uses tab stops at 8
characters, the same as every other unix tool.

Of course it's easy to change to any value you like, or you can be more
specific and set it individually for certain modes, buffers, or
indentation styles.

Cheers,

Martin.

• Luke Kanies 22:42 on 19 Jun 2006
  • Martin Ebourne 23:09 on 19 Jun 2006
    • David Champion 23:16 on 19 Jun 2006
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 22:55 on 23 Jun 2006
• David Cantrell 16:20 on 20 Jun 2006

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