From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64466 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Tabs in texi files Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:01:29 +0900 Message-ID: <87fy7pj7li.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175122920 30568 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2007 23:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:02:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12990=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Mar 29 01:01:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HWh9S-0003QG-HV for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:01:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWh9R-0005yU-Te for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWh9R-0005yP-0U for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWh9O-0004Qx-3g for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HWh9N-0003af-00 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:01:53 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HWh9E-0003Fo-9x for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:01:44 +0200 Original-Received: from 203-216-104-214.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.104.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:01:44 +0200 Original-Received: from miles by 203-216-104-214.dsl.gol.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:01:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-104-214.dsl.gol.ne.jp System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:/O4xv6bhGt99XtgIVK4iauFyrOM= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64466 Archived-At: Reiner Steib 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 -- `Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)