Emacs auto-modes and tabs

[Kevin D. Clark]

bscott at ntisys.com writes:

> On 17 Apr 2003, at 8:33am, kclark at cetaceannetworks.com wrote:
> > ... since Programmer A has intermixed spaces and tabs in his indentation
> > ...
> 
>   Programmer A is broken, then.  Check with your vendor for an updated
> version.  :-)

OK, then Programmer B looks at Programmer A's code, decides to add a
line of code, but doesn't notice that Programmer A used tabs instead
of spaces (this is easy enough to do), inserts the line of code.
Later, Programmer A complains to Programmer B that the code that
he/she inserted "didn't go along with my indentation style".

OBTW, even though I am being really abstract here, I can think of
quite a few times in my own experience where this scenerio has
happened.


The current status of inserting spaces and tabs in source files is
currently a mess, and I personally have no hope that this will ever be
resolved.

Regards,

--kevin
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