* On 2006.06.19, in <1150754996.14892.12.ca...@avenin.ebourne.me.uk>, * "Martin Ebourne" <li...@ebourne.me.uk> wrote: > > I've no idea where that's come from because Emacs (at least GNU Emacs) > certainly doesn't do that by default. By default it uses tab stops at 8 > characters, the same as every other unix tool.
Perhaps "default" wasn't the best word choice to an emacs user, but it feels right if you've shared the same hate. It's probably from cc-mode. Try it. emacs bloody-emacs.c and put in some levels of indentation, then check it out in vi or od. It does appear that somewhere in the last 12 years they've changed it from 4 spaces (also my recollection) to 2 spaces; hate. -- -D. d...@uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago
