Re: Tabs in texi files

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <muxzm5x2ukr.fsf@uzeb.lrde.epita.fr> Didier Verna wrote:

>>> 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.

> I must admit however that I never encountered this situation (I mean any
> ugliness) myself. Besides, there are also tabs in other (untouched by me)
> places, like between a node name and its description.

There were one tab in the gnus.texi file before you modified it.
Though I've never noticed it, I see it breaks the indentation of
the Lisp form in the info node `6.1.3 Example Methods' as follows:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
   See also `nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches'.  Here's an example for
an indirect connection:
     (setq gnus-select-method
           '(nntp "indirect"
     	     (nntp-address "news.server.example")
                  (nntp-via-user-name "intermediate_user_name")
                  (nntp-via-address "intermediate.host.example")
                  (nntp-via-rlogin-command "ssh")
                  (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
                  (nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches ("-C" "-t" "-e" "none"))
                  (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But now such ugliness is here and there.  For example:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
          (setq gnus-summary-show-article-charset-alist
                '((1 . cn-gb-2312)
          	(2 . big5)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I use:

$ makeinfo --version
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8

> So what's the general recommendation for texi files ?

Don't use tabs.

Regards,