Subject: bug#49971: 28.0.50; indent-tabs-mode not working globally

From: Gabriel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:33:37 -0300

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Gabriel <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 18:15:46 -0300
>> 
>> It seems that the new 'indent-tabs-mode' minor-mode, although defined as
>> global, it's working as a buffer-local minor-mode. Using emacs from
>> master branch built today:
>> 
>> 1. emacs -Q
>> 2. C-h v 'indent-tabs-mode' (value is t)
>> 3. eval '(indent-tabs-mode -1)'
>> 4. C-h v 'indent-tabs-mode' (local value is nil; global value is t)
>
> Where did you see that it's "defined as global"?

On simple.el:

(define-minor-mode indent-tabs-mode
  "Toggle whether indentation can insert TAB characters."
  :global t :group 'indent :variable indent-tabs-mode)