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* David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> [2003-07-01 14:43]:
> On Tuesday, July 1, 2003 9:03 -0400 Joel Gwynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >From: David Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>It's a question of what you're used to, I guess. IMO emacs's
> >>indentation blows syphilitic goats :-)
> >What exactly is wrong with emacs's auto-indent?
>
> It does what - IMO - is the wrong thing. I want a consistent amount
> of indentation from one level of nesting to the next. Every emacs
> installation I've tried to use, including "fresh out of the box" ones,
> didn't do that. Instead, it imposes what seem to me to be arbitrary
> amounts of extraneous whitespace. 20 characters here, 40 there, and
> so on.
My complaint with emacs' indenting isn't that it's the wrong amount but
that by default it mixes tab and space characters, which are not the
same thing.
> Maybe someone swapped it for a python editor without telling me ;-)
If that were the case, it would have to indent exactly the correct
amount of whitespace for every indent level, which is actually what you
said you wanted. Anything else is a syntax error.
(darren)
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