On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 at 12:54, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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.
And if we put a .editorconfig file at the top level, then most decent editors will be auto-configured as we want. And we can tease people who use bad editors that ignore .editorconfig ;-)
