Emacs auto-modes and tabs

[David Roberts]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Derek Martin stated in their Email:

Derek> From: Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org>
Derek> To: discuss <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Derek> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:03:57 -0400
Derek> Subject: Re: Emacs auto-modes and tabs
Derek> 
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Derek> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:30:30AM -0400, Jason Stephenson wrote:
Derek> > Emacs will automagically match tabs or spaces in a file if the
Derek> > indentation is already consistent.
Derek> 
Derek> Not everyone uses Emacs, and not everyone wants to.

Nope, but even vi knows about spaces, now if we want to 
have a realy holy war - how about the proper placement of 
the curly braces within the, in this case 'C' code 
(same/separate line as the statement, indented with code 
or not, etc.)  There, I should have opened up at least two 
points of "discussion" with that one...   >;)

Derek> 
Derek> > Why people get in holy wars over tabs versus spaces (and I thought the 
Derek> > spaces people won, anyway) is beyond me. I can understand people getting 
Derek> >  passionate about what text editor they use, after all as a programmer 
Derek> > it's probably the program that you spend most of your time using, but to 
Derek> > argue over tabs versus spaces is kinda lame, particulary when any decent 
Derek> > editor can do the right thing with any given file.
Derek> 
Derek> You're right; I don't see why everyone doesn't just use tabs.  That
Derek> way, if you prefer a particular indentation, all anyone needs to do is
Derek> change the tab stop width, and then everyone can be happy with their
Derek> favorite indentation.  This is not possible if your editor expands
Derek> tabs to spaces.  Therefore I conclude that using spaces is illogical.

Until you generate your software review package and the 
printer wraps (or worse truncates) the long lines at the 
80-character width - easily done depending on the 
complexity of the code (or number of indents) and your 
variable naming conventions.

And yes there are still people out there who must 
generate paper trails (luckily I'm not one of them 
anymore), after all it keeps all our pulp mills up in 
northern NH -and- the government auditors in business...
;)

Derek> 
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