On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/11/12 09:06, Jason St. John wrote: >> From: "Jason St. John" <[email protected]> >> >> It makes little sense to "force" users to replace tabs with spaces, with >> a width of 2. These settings should be configured by the user in their >> own ~/.vimrc. >> >> Bluewind stated on IRC that removing "et" is a bad idea and that it >> would be better to just turn that setting off with "noet". By "forcing" >> the use of tabs, this supports better compatibility between various user >> preferences because the width of tabs/indents is, and should be, an >> editor setting. >> > > It makes even less sense to "force" users to have vim modelines at all. > My vote is to remove them completely from the prototypes.
I disagree on this; it is all too easy to start intermingling tabs and spaces in these otherwise. The original patch idea seems fine to me. -Dan
