Re: pattern matching

Hey Hendrik,

Large indentations don't necessarily bother me, but I remember posting a
Python program to a Python User's Group with something like 6 spaces per
tab, and one of the programmers gave me an earful for not following
standard Python protocol, which is 4 spaces per tab.  ( This should be a
personal choice for the programmer based on personal visual preferences,
but some people insist on suppressing individual creativity for the sake of
conforming to their "tried and true" standards. )

Anyhow, is there a quick way to establish my preferences in Emacs?  Tabs,
spaces, indentations, font, font colors, etc?  Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Hendrik Boom [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 07:28:26PM -0500, Douglas Lewit [email protected]
> [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
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> > 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
> 
>