Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?

[Torsten Mueller]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's the issue: how do you know how to automatize your editing?
> You lack the knowledge and/or experience to do it. That's why you
> should rely on a work-flow designed by experienced users, which you
> can tweak later. Unless you enjoy reinventing the wheel, and
> possibly reinventing it trapezoidal.
>
> Thank goddess somebody invented modal editing. It is the most
> effective way to edit text I can think of, now that I know it

I don't know what you mean with "modal editing". Indenting and setting
backets in pairs and such stuff?

Hey, I write code for 20 years now. And I use emacs almost as long.
The first thing I switch off when I install a new emacs somewhere is
all this automatic stuff. (BTW: I do this in every environment, also
in Visual Studio, also in vi.) Why?

When I write code I want to have the things done truely that way I do
them. What I don't need is any process in the background doing
something for me, especially I don't want him to modify my text based
on some "rules" defined by others or by accident. If I give him 3
spaces to indent a line I want 3 spaces. And if I give him 7 spaces on
the next line I want 7. Well, I never do this. But I must be able to
do this! Having an editor doing indenting and spelling and more is
like a policeman watching my fingers and telling me always "Don't do
this!" and "Don't do that!". - I don't want to justify my behaviour
towards an editor. I think this is legal.

T.M.