Larry Wall's comment on python...

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Saturday 07 September 2002 16:07, François Pinard wrote:
> [Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]
>
> > [yka]
> >
> >> [Kow Kuroda]
> >>
> >> > [...] For example, vi and emacs indent by 8 characters by default
> >>
> >> [...] Well at vim :set ts=4 makes more fitting
> >
> > actually emacs defaults to 4 space indenting [...]
>
> The Python mode writers for Emacs managed to automatically recognise the
> indentation in use in a file, and continue editing that file with the same.
> For new files, I get four spaces per level.
>
> However, for Python files indented with TABs only, Emacs cannot
> successfully guess if the author's intent was to expand those TAB with four
> or eight spaces.  By default, I vaguely remember it picks eight.

correct emacs says a tab is a tab and a tab means 8.