Re: [Phpwiki-talk] tab-width

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> To restate and (hopefully) clarify once again:
>
> My only beef is with tab-width=4.  Setting indent-tabs-mode to nil is,
> I think, a fine way to go.  But even with that setting, it's almost
> inevitable that some real tabs will make their way into the source code.
> (The PEAR source code demonstrates this quite well.)  I just think those
> tabs that do make it into the source code should always be rendered as
> eight-space tabs, rather than funky four-space tabs.

Aha! OK, now I see what you mean. I thought you wanted to indent code with
tabs, which I still have serious misgivings about. tab-width=8 is
preferable, indeed, if we are using indent-tabs-mode=nil.

>
> Here's what I'm proposing we use:
>
> // Local Variables:
> // mode: php
> // tab-width: 8
> // c-basic-offset: 4
> // c-hanging-comment-ender-p: nil
> // indent-tabs-mode: nil
> // End:
>
> If we include the above cruft in our source code,  then you (probably)
> don't even need to fix your .emacs.

Perfect. We are in agreement and everyone is happy. :-)

~swain

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