leading spaces

leading spaces

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Hi,

I found a lot of lines beginning with eight or more spaces in
Gnus Lisp files:

% cd gnus/lisp
% grep '^        ' *.el|wc -l
966

I hope developers set `indent-tabs-mode' to t (by default) and
do M-x indent-region.

Thank you,
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>

Re: leading spaces

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I found a lot of lines beginning with eight or more spaces in
> Gnus Lisp files:
> 
> % cd gnus/lisp
> % grep '^        ' *.el|wc -l
> 966
> 
> I hope developers set `indent-tabs-mode' to t (by default) and
> do M-x indent-region.

I've cleaned them up.

ShengHuo

Re: leading spaces

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <2nitghsvu7.fsf@piglet.jia.vnet> 
>>>>>	ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> wrote:

>> I found a lot of lines beginning with eight or more spaces in
>> Gnus Lisp files:

ZSH> I've cleaned them up.

Oops, you've done M-x indent-region or equivalent for whole
contents for each file.  Under FSF Emacs 21, this command is
affected by the value of `fill-column' as shown below:

FROM:
-----
     ;; Many things can happen to an RFC 822 mailbox before it is put into
     ;; a `From' line.  The leading phrase can be stripped, e.g.
     ;; `Joe <@w.x:joe@y.z>' -> `<@w.x:joe@y.z>'.  The <> can be stripped, e.g.
     ;; `<@x.y:joe@y.z>' -> `@x.y:joe@y.z'.  Everything starting with a CRLF

TO:
---
 ;; Many things can happen to an RFC 822 mailbox before it is put into
     ;; a `From' line.  The leading phrase can be stripped, e.g.
;; `Joe <@w.x:joe@y.z>' -> `<@w.x:joe@y.z>'.  The <> can be stripped, e.g.
;; `<@x.y:joe@y.z>' -> `@x.y:joe@y.z'.  Everything starting with a CRLF

I don't like such a feature, so I set `fill-column' to the
maximum integer as follows:

(if (and (not (featurep 'xemacs))
	 (>= emacs-major-version 21))
    (let ((fn (byte-compile
	       `(lambda nil
		  (setq fill-column ,(1- (lsh -1 -1)))))))
      (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook fn t)
      (add-hook 'lisp-interaction-mode-hook fn t)))
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>