Re: pattern matching

"Hendrik Boom [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:33:27 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ocaml.beginners
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 07:28:26PM -0500, Douglas Lewit [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:

> I've also found
> that when I write a file in Vim, it looks really weird when I open it up in
> Emacs.  All the tabs and indentations are way too big!  I think in my
> .vimrc file I specified a tab of 4 spaces, but when I open the file in
> Emacs I end up with one tab being equal to like 8 spaces or something like
> that.  Very annoying.

It is the case that the default tab settings have been 8 spaces since 
the 60's, on ancient teletype machines, long before the days of emacs.

-- hendrik