Re: Katsumi Yamaoka's CVS update of gnus/lisp (73 files)

[Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> 	* many files: Remove trailing whitespaces, replace spc+tab with
>> 	tab, replace leading whitespaces with tabs.
>
> `replace leading whitespaces with tabs' does not mean using only
> tabs.  I've replaced
>
> ssssssss -> t
> sssssssst -> tt
>
> and so on.  I've never done something like: ttss -> ttt

OK.  That wasn't obvious from your Changelog, since you mention
"spc+tab" which generally sounds like "all combinations of spaces and
tabs" being replaced with tab.

> It is natural on the condition that the option `indent-tabs-mode' is
> t (by default).  Could you see the actual Gnus source files?

OK, I cvs updated one file, and saved the old version first
(gnus-dired.el, a file I wrote not too long ago) to see the diffs.
What is the motivation for this change?

When I wrote gnus-dired.el, the last thing I did before submitting it
for inclusion was M-x mark-whole-buffer and M-x indent-region, and
I've never customized any of the indention variables in
emacs-lisp-mode either.  So, gnus-dired.el was originally indented
using emacs's default indentation in emacs-lisp-mode.  Is there any
way I could have coded it differently to avoid requiring your
whitespace modification?  If not, then I think you're going to have to
repeat the changes you made again and again as new code is submitted
using emacs-lisp-mode's default indentation rules.
-- 
Benjamin