From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65008 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: untabify Lisp sources Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:46:05 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: <87lkcw41wk.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185936433 31000 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2007 02:47:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13518@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 01 04:47:06 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 1IG4Ep-00078I-6m for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:47:03 +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 1IG4En-0006o8-KW; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:47:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IG4Em-0006nj-0p for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:47:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IG4Eg-0007pm-4E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:46:59 -0500 Original-Received: from blockstar.com ([170.224.69.95] helo=mail.blockstar.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IG4Ef-0000BI-00 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:46:53 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz (c-24-14-57-89.hsd1.il.comcast.net [24.14.57.89]) by mail.blockstar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E863F8479; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:53:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: Miles Bader , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87lkcw41wk.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:57:31 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65008 Archived-At: On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:57:31 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: MB> Katsumi Yamaoka writes: >> I can agree with the new convention if there is a good reason. >> But even if the convention changes (or had changed?), I think >> that we should separately do untabifying of the Lisp sources and >> installing of changes. MB> Well, _if_ you're going to do untabification, I guess it's best to keep MB> it separate, but ... I think in general it's a very bad idea to make MB> widespread source changes for purely cosmetic reasons (and in this case, MB> it's not even really "cosmetic" -- whitespace is invisible!); it's a big MB> pain for merging. MB> Please, let's just stick with a recommended setting of MB> `indent-tabs-mode', and not do any untabification. The benefits of MB> untabification seem very small compared to the pain (to be honest, what MB> _are_ the benefits, exactly???). This was all just my stupidity. Please ignore. Ted