From: Steven Lumos Date: 2007-07-20T02:47:50+09:00 Subject: Re: indentation / emacs woes Charles Thornton writes: > Ryan Davis wrote: >> >> On Jul 18, 2007, at 14:25 , Charles Thornton wrote: >> >>> Use the UNTABIFY Feature: >> >> Um. no. It isn't up to us to modify the source to suit our >> whitespace preferences. That'll just be an endless svn-based >> argument. Matz sets the style guidelines. What I'd rather do is get >> it such that everything looks right and I don't have to think about >> it. >> >> >> >> > You may be right -- However converting TABS does not change to > "appearance" of the source file > either for RUBY or any other text reading program. You missed the point. If everybody sets their editor to mangle tabs according to their preference, every commit will have a degenerate hundreds-of-lines long diff. I'm guessing the answer was something like "set tab width to 8 characters". If so, then that should probably be added to ruby-style.el. Steve > It simply avoids the UNEVEN INTERPRETATION 'TABS' by various programs. > > I would assume that any source control system allows for nsertion > filters into the source input > processing - It could be taken care of automatically. > > of course it is jist my opinion, > and I alway say --- OPINIONS DIFFER! > > Good Luck - Chuck T.