Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Jari Aalto <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:06:17 +0300

* Tue 2007-10-16 Michael Witten <mfwitten AT MIT.EDU>
* Message-Id: B2F6DB0C-4EFE-4C56-8E7A-31820320CA02 AT mit.edu
> On 16 Oct 2007, at 11:26:07 AM, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>
>> Instead of using "(setq indent-tabs-mode t)" use "(setq indent-tabs-
>> mode
>> nil)".  This will force emacs to always use spaces to indent.
>
> However, 8 spaces per tab is a lot of wasted
> information to be bandying about.

Spaces are guaranteed to interpreted correctly in all environments. TABs
are the source of too many problems.

Jari

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