Wildman <best_...@yahoo.com>:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:01:26 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Can you ask your workmates to elaborate? I'd love to hear.
>
> I would love to hear also. I've been using Linux for about 10 years
> and I have never had anything "break" because of a tab. Sounds like a
> case of Chicken Little to me.
Example:
- Start emacs with the default settings.
- Edit buffer "abc": C-x C-b abc
- Start drawing: M-x picture-mode
- Draw this box starting from the top left corner and circling
clockwise:
+------------------+
| |
| |
+------------------+
- Move the cursor to the beginning of the first line of the box.
Try to move the box to the left by three columns:
C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-f C-f C-f C-x r k
What you get is:
+------------------+
| |
| |
+------------------+
because only the first line was indented with spaces. Emacs uses
when opening the other lines.
If you disable tabs (or untabify), you get the intended result:
+------------------+
| |
| |
+------------------+
This is only an example. Analogous annoyances crop up in all kinds of
editing.
Marko
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