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Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook
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goncholden |
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Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook |
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Sat, 11 Jun 2022 21:56:01 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, June 12th, 2022 at 9:36 AM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 12.06.2022 00:17, goncholden wrote:
>
> > I have tried that. You get encouraged it might work. Until you press return
> > on the end of the line. Then emacs deletes all the tabs.
>
>
> Aaand you can disable 'electric-indent-mode' to get rid of this behavior.
>
> > Emacs should have a minor-mode or settings that only keep the highlighting
> > for the specific major-mode, and allows the user
> > to format as one pleases.
>
>
> The general expectation is that our users's projects adhere to some
> common rules WRT indentation, with only a few parameters varying between
> them (which can be customized). When that holds, Emacs's way is way more
> efficient in practice.
That expectation is wrong for legacy code, particularly in fortran.
> And when one works on a rare exception, they can tweak their config
> accordingly. A minor mode could be helpful, I suppose, but the
> customizations I suggested are fairly easy to do already.
They are easy to do but they are not enough. Because at some deep level emacs
expectation users's projects to adhere to a sytle. That only works for single
person works or multi-person works who actually adhere to a style. In this
files, the style they adhere to relate only to naming conventions and that code
is uppercase. And obviously, that usual column position rules.
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, (continued)
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Andreas Röhler, 2022/06/13
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/13
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook,
goncholden <=
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/11
- RE: [External] : Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Drew Adams, 2022/06/11
- Re: [External] : Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/11
Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/10