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From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam's protocol description?
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:20:38 +0400
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>  > 2 spaces good. 8 spaces better.
>
> s/8 spaces/tab/

You did not understand my intent.

autoindent is not a space smashing stuff. Autoindent is a feature which
places the cursor under the first non-space character of the previous line.
It works with any way of indents' styling; whether they are 8 or 2 or tabs
or spaces.

The 'space smashing stuff' you see in the patch is meant to decrease the traffic
between sam and samterm, while your proposal does the opposite. Hope this helps.

I find it convenient to have editor do it for me; samterm does a handful
of similar things, such as Ctrl-U, Ctrl-W and parentheses matching. I think
it is natural to have autoindent too.

Hope this helps.

David Tolpin
http://davidashen.net/