Re: Coding conventions

Paul Landes wrote:
> 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?

FWIW, my grepping indicates that the current jde elisp uses tabs for
indentation about 25% of the time, and space-based indentation the
remaining 75%. Doing the same greps in the top level lisp directory of
the emacs distribution reveals an eerily similar proportion :-)


> 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)))

Minor note, that is reversed -- it will set it so elisp *does* use
spaces rather than tab chars.


Cheers,
Len.



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