On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 01:25:25PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> Maybe we should go the other way around? Compressing eight spaces into
> a tab leads to strange artifacts in diffs (where lines appear
> misindented because some were aligned by tabs and some by spaces), and
> nowadays editor authors seem to have forgotten tabs are eight spaces and
> instead default to (or, worse, hard-code) four, obviously making the
> codebase quite unreadable. We also don't get the benefit of being able
> to adjust tabstop locally to our preferences when we use two-column
> indentation, so I don't see an advantage to keeping 'indent-tabs-mode
> (or equivalent in other editors) enabled.
Editors which are worth a dime handle tabs fine, and I think using tabs is
better.
Changing to space would be a major obstackle in git blame/git archeology,
something lots of people use very often.
Admittely even this patch which changes 40860 lines isn't very nice, but
if we had to change 1219139 lines instead (still talking just about
gcc/, include/, lib{gcc,cpp,iberty,stdc++-v3})...
Jakub
