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Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default

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Message #33 received at 55862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, goncholden <goncholden <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 55862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55862: Removing indent-tabs-mode set to t by default
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 17:10:12 +0300

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"<bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>>
>> 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.

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