From: Jim Freeze Date: 2004-02-24T20:13:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Appropriate use of camelCase (Tabbing in emacs) On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 12:32:46 +0900, Patrick Bennett wrote: > > > FWIW, I have yet to hear a good reason for hard tabs. :) As soon as a > *single* space is used *anywhere* on a line after tabs, the tabs mean > nothing and will cause the indentation to be mismatched on someone > else's system. With spaces, the indentation is *always* correct. Speaking of tabs, I have a colleague that uses emacs. Using ruby-mode.el, indents two spaces, unless he tabs 4 times. Then the 8 spaces are converted to a hard tab. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Particularly, is there a way for ruby-mode.el to do this so he does not have to permanently change his tab setting in emacs. Thanks -- "I went to a job interview the other day, the guy asked me if I had any questions , I said yes, just one, if you're in a car traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, does anything happen? He said he couldn't answer that, I told him sorry, but I couldn't work for him then. -- Steven Wright