Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > I'm saying I have never seen is this: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 8:56 AM Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> However, it is trumped by an older >> convention whereby the indentation levels go as follows: >> >> 0: >> 1: SPC SPC >> 2: SPC SPC SPC SPC >> 3: SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC >> 4: TAB >> 5: TAB SPC SPC >> 6: TAB SPC SPC SPC SPC >> 7: TAB SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC >> 8: TAB TAB > > Specifically that two-space indents and tab-collapsing are a > *convention*. I have never seen this used anywhere, much less seen it > commonly enough to call it a convention.
The two-space indentation is the out-of-the-box default for emacs. However, the tab collapsing principle is a universal default. If you go against it, you will have to educate more tools than your editor. For example, try running this Python snippet (in REPL or as a program): for i in range(32): print("x{}\ty".format(" " * i)) Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list