Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > As for tools' brokeness regarding spaces/tabs/indentation heres a > thread on the emacs list wherein emacs dev Stefan Monnier admits to > the fact that emacs' handling in this regard is not perfect. > > http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/1bd0c33a3e755730/89cbd920ee651b5a?q=tabs+stefan+spaces+group:gnu.emacs.help#89cbd920ee651b5a
You've misunderstood. That discussion is about configuring Emacs to not do automatic indentation when the `tab' key is pressed or when language-specific punctuation is entered. It has very little to do with tab characters in files. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
