Re: Coding conventions

I was convinced that it was actually written in some GNU Emacs Lisp
style guide that Emacs Lisp files use tabs with a tab set at 8, but I
actually wasn't able to produce it.

Does anyone know where this is defined, if it is defined?

Regardless, I don't think I've ever seen an emacs lisp file that
doesn't go by this convention.  I realize this standard is changing
for other languages like Java, for which other IDEs have their own
idea of what tab spaces should be.  In these circumstances, I think
it's best to go with spaces since that is the common denominator.

However, I don't think there are going to be many people using some
other editor to edit Emacs Lisp file.  I shiver thinking about using
Eclipse to edit Emacs Lisp files :)

You're correct `indent-tabs-mode' does the job.  If you want to keep
spaces for everything else but elisp files, add this to ~/.emacs:

(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook
	  '(lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))



Len Trigg writes:
 > Przemys?aw Wojnowski wrote:
 > > Are there any coding conventions which should be used in this project?
 > > Should we use spaces or tabs and how lines should be indented? I've seen
 > > use of spaces and tabs in different lines in jde-parse.el.
 > 
 > My preference would be to use spaces for indentation (I have
 > indent-tabs-mode set to nil, which I am assuming that lisp indentation
 > obeys), and do whatever emacs does as default for how to indent lines.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Len.
 > 
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