Subject: Re: bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default

From: goncholden <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:05:49 +0000

A 2016 survey by Felipe Hoffa concluded that spaces far outpace tabs in every major programming language with the exceptions of C, one of the very oldest programming languages, and Google's Go.

It is worth reconsidering the decision to stick with tabs in future.  I do not know of any mechanism to show (with some symbol) the beginning of each tab and the end of a line when space happens at the end of a line.

https://hoffa.medium.com/400-000-github-repositories-1-billion-files-14-terabytes-of-code-spaces-or-tabs-7cfe0b5dd7fd#.o7n8zeezx

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On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 1:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:40:35 +0000
> > From: goncholden [email-masked]
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> >
> > > Of course, arguing about defaults is many times futile, since changing
> > > them is very easy.
> >
> > It is not so easy because one also has to make the change based on major mode.
>
>
> Every major mode has a mode hook, and the usual way to customize a
> mode is in that hook.