From: David Flanagan <david@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T03:31:16+09:00
Subject: Re: indentation / emacs woes

M-x set-variable
   enter "tab-width"
   then enter 8

If that works for you, you can put (setq tab-width 8) in your .emacs 
file.  An 8-column tab seems to be the default for me, so I don't know 
why it isn't just working for you.

I've only sampled a few of the core .c files and a few of the lib/*.rb 
files, (from the 1.9 sources) but 8-column tabs look like the standard 
to me.

   David Flanagan

Steven Lumos wrote:
> Charles Thornton <ceo@hawthorne-press.com> 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.
> 
>