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Re: tab widths with a remapped default face
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: tab widths with a remapped default face |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:53:59 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> Using the TAB face for tab-width calculation seems much likely to
> preserve the local integrity of indentation (using the default face
> means that mixed space and tab indentation will often not be the same as
> space-only indentation). It seems a bit more intuitive to me as well.
> However, if there is a significant case where using the default face for
> calculations is better, it would be good to know it, but it seems a bit
> silly to make decisions based on vague recollections.
I think the issue was vertical alignment of elements on different lines,
using different faces. E.g. a first (header) line in one face,
followed by various lines in some other face.
OTOH, you can usually add a `default' face to the TABs to impose the use
of a uniform tab size, so maybe it's not a real problem.
Maybe Gerd remembers?
Stefan