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mcedit default indentation settings cause mixture of tabs and spaces #2130

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mc-butler opened this issue Apr 4, 2010 · 3 comments
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area: mcedit mcedit, the built-in text editor prio: low Minor problem or easily worked around

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

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

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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

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