Re: Tabs in texi files

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>         I have whitespace.el hooked in write-file-hooks.
>>
>>> AFAIK, tabs in texi sources will make the formatted info ugly,
>>> so I usually run `untabify' over the area I edited.
>>
>>         Hmmm. I had never realized that. Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> IMHO, it would be better _not_ do mix topical changes with white space
> changes at all.  It makes merging (with/from Emacs) and tracking
> changes unnecessary hard.  I'd suggest to avoid this.

Indeed.

For this reason, it's not a good idea to use things like "whitespace.el
hooked in write-file-hooks" unless perhaps you are the primary
maintainer of a file or otherwise edit it so often that the resulting
whitespace changes are kept under control.

-Miles

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