Re: [Vala] Emacs vala-mode

[Stefan Risberg <steffenomak gmail com>]

Yes but with your patch it will *force* spaces. I myself like tabs for
indentation and spaces for aligment, but thats my preference.

    Stefan

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:05:56PM +0100, David Gomes wrote:
> (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) will *not* work on default vala-mode. Vala-mode
> *forces* tabs.
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:19 +0100, David Gomes wrote:
> > > Vala's official indentation method is 4 spaces. However, vala-mode on
> >
> > [citation needed].  The closest thing to an official statement on the
> > matter that I'm aware of is the valac source code, which uses tabs.
> >
> > > Vala's website is made it so that Emacs indents with tabs. Attached is a
> > > fixed version of that vala-mode.el to make it indent with spaces.
> >
> > It's really a personal, or per-project, preference.  People who want
> > spaces can use their ~/.emacs to (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) to do so.
> > I do (I prefer two spaces).
> >
> > You could also use file variables to set this on a per-file basis, or
> > directory variables (see
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DirectoryVariables) to set it for an
> > entire project.
> >
> > > I think it should be replaced on Vala's (live.gnome) website.
> >
> > I don't think it should be unless you can cite your source for the
> > "official indentation method" statement, but it /is/ a wiki...
> >
> >
> > -Evan

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