mcedit default indentation settings cause mixture of tabs and spaces

[mc-butler]

Important

This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2130
Reporter	zaytsev (@zyv)
Mentions	gotar@….pl

Forwarded from Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mc/+bug/238897

By default, mcedit’s indentation settings are: 8 units per tab, use 
tabs, and use fake half tabs.

This causes problems because fake half tabs are in fact tabsize/2 space 
characters, and as anyone who has ever indented source code knows:
either use tabs, or spaces, but make up your mind, else havoc is
guaranteed.

I find it especially unwise to propagate such a counterproductive 
setting as default. I think Fake Half Tabs would be much better turned
off -- whether people use tabs or spaces, and how many of them is a
wholly different issue altogether.

[mc-butler]

Changed by zaytsev (@zyv) on Apr 4, 2010 at 13:05 UTC (comment 1)

• Description edited

[mc-butler]

Changed by gotar (gotar@….pl) on May 26, 2010 at 20:23 UTC (comment 2)

• Cc set to gotar@….pl

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Nov 3, 2011 at 9:23 UTC (comment 3)

• Milestone changed from 4.7 to Future Releases
• Branch state set to no branch