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

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <wc3vgcqjov0.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu> 
>>>>>	Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> We only have to do just the right thing.

> Your opinion on what the right thing is just that, an opinion.

Yes, that is my opinion, developers don't have to follow me. :-)

> Without code conventions, it is every gnus developer's right to

> (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)

> in emacs-lisp-mode.  Your changes were so massive that it looked like
> gnus code conventions had materialized.  Evidently that is not the
> case.  Rather, it looks like one person's opinion of the "right thing"
> spread throughout all the source code.

I'm never a fascist, I'll accept a majority opinion.  I think
removing garbages and reducing file size are good things, but if
many people don't consider so, I'll never do that in future.

I know some people have changed `tab-width' and `tab-stop-list'
globally.  They are free to do anything.  However, since almost
all Gnus files use tabs (and possibly following spaces, of
course) for the indentation and it seems that they assume the
value of `tab-width' is eight, modifying `tab-width' is against
their own interests.  If it is correct, using only spaces for
the indentation has only an effect on increasing file size.  I
think so and I've done those changes.
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>