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

From: goncholden <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:18:28 +0000

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On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 2:11 AM, Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 09.06.2022 15:40, goncholden via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss
> army knife of text editors wrote:
>
> > It is not so easy because one also has to make the change based on major mode.
>
>
> You can customize 'indent-tabs-mode' globally to nil, to use spaces in
> most language modes.

If it is changed globally, I would think it would be a bad idea for major modes that require tabs.  Can use setq-default perhaps.

> The ones that really need tabs (such as makefile-mode) will continue to
> use them anyway.