Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook

[goncholden]

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On Saturday, June 11th, 2022 at 11:17 AM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> 
wrote:


> Yuri Khan wrote:
>
> > Major modes where spaces or tabs are syntactically
> > significant, such as makefile-mode and python-mode, already
> > override indent-tabs-mode.

Have found that fortran-mode suffers from problems for legacy code programming 
styles.

> > Set indent-tabs-mode for your global preference. Deal with
> > exceptions on a case-by-case basis, when and if you
> > encounter them.

That would require quite an effort for a user to set up.  It is  better for 
Emacs to have the functionality available and let the user select them on or 
off.

> Newlines are also syntactically significant here and there and
> it's a slanting plane:
>
> #! /bin/zsh
> #
> # this file:
> # https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/music
>
> play-music () {
> clear
> local dir=~/mm/m
>
> mpv \
> --no-resume-playback \
> --shuffle \
> --vo=null \
> --volume=37 \
> ${dir}/**/*.(mkv|mp4|webm)(N)
> }
>
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