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From: Drup <drupyog+caml@zoho.com>
To: Christophe Troestler <Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>,
	OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Cc: Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Coding style: mixing tabs and spaces in indentation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 16:36:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568BE2EB.4030203@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160105.144630.1924246496284532849.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>

Well, there is an implicit consensus, it's called ocp-indent ....

Le 05/01/2016 14:46, Christophe Troestler a écrit :
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:12:24 +0100, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am wondering whether there are some guidelines that have been proposed
>> regarding the way OCaml code should be presented?
>>
>> More specifically: am I correct that it is considered not such a good
>> practise to mix tabs and spaces in code indentation? And if so, are
>> there objective reasons for that?
>>
>> It seems Emacs is configured to do that (mixing tabs and spaces) by
>> default, can anybody confirm?
> Indeed.  You have to put
>
>      (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
>
> in your ~/.emacs.d/init.el file.
>
> Best,
> C.
>
>
> P.S. If there is a consensus on this list that TABs shouldn't be used for OCaml code, I can enable this for OCaml files in Tuareg.
>



  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-05 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05  9:12 Sébastien Hinderer
2016-01-05  9:18 ` Francois Berenger
2016-01-05  9:34 ` David MENTRE
2016-01-05  9:55 ` Raphaël Proust
2016-01-05 13:46 ` Christophe Troestler
2016-01-05 15:36   ` Drup [this message]
2016-01-05 15:42     ` Simon Cruanes
2016-01-05 21:25 ` Hendrik Boom

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