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

From: goncholden <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:44:27 +0000

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On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 4:06 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:21:33 +0000
> > From: goncholden [email-masked]
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii [email-masked], [email-masked]
> >
> > This has been a continual problem with emacs as it mostly caters for passed-over old folks stuck in the eigthies.
>
>
> The crowd of youngsters from 2020s are welcome to come aboard in their
> masses and take over from the old farts.

The problem occurs mainly because tab widths are not consistent.  As is known, tab widths relate directly with spaces, but that information is lost.