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

From: goncholden <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:21:33 +0000

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

> On 09.06.2022 08:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 03:19:01 +0000
> > > From: goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > > the Swiss army knife of text editors"[email-masked]
> > >
> > > Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not be used.
> > > That depends on the major mode. E.g., in text mode and its
> > > derivatives this is turned off. But in programming modes, many
> > > languages accept TABs, so using them is not a bad idea, especially
> > > since this is a long-standing Emacs default.
>
>
> It being a long-time default of ours has no effect on whether using tabs
> is a good idea (since Emacs is not particularly popular these days to
> affect global practive).
>
> But you know my opinion on this anyway.

This has been a continual problem with emacs as it mostly caters for passed-over old folks stuck in the eigthies.