Re: tab-indented project

[Alexandre François Garreau]

Le jeudi 10 octobre 2019 08:48:25 CEST, vous avez écrit :
> To consistently hack a tab-indented project, I thought to “(standard-indent
> . tab-width)” as dir-local variable.  Yet it doesn’t seem to eval
> variables, contrarily to file-local ones.  Also is there a more canonical
> way of making indentation purely by tabs?  Thank you ^^

I just noticed I should use `c-basic-offset' instead: what’s the use of a 
separate variable for that, that complexify a such understandable and likely 
user feature? if none, couldn’t it be replaced with `standard-indent'?