bug#20322: 25.0.50; indent-tabs-mode should default to nil

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04/17/2015 08:22 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:

> http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech-tabsspaces
> "After millennia of heated debate, mercifully, at long last, we have an
> answer. Most developers prefer tabs to spaces."

Already seen this. I'm inclined to take it with a pound of salt, for 
several reasons:

- Have you participated in it? I'm a heavy SO user, and I've only found 
out about it after the results were published. So, a certain amount of 
bias has to be assumed.

- If the question was "what do you personally prefer", it doesn't 
necessarily reflect the state of the projects the surveyees are actually 
working on.

- For all we know, the majority of respondents came from PHP, VB.NET, or 
some other proprietary platforms which Emacs does not support directly.

> Yes, the data also shows that experienced developers do prefer spaces
> over tabs, but the matter is far from clear.

Some of the less experienced ones might also be answering a different 
question. Look at the subscript (in brackets) here: 
http://jarrodoverson.com/blog/spaces-vs-tabs/