From kde-devel  Tue Mar 21 18:20:40 2000
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:20:40 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Indenting
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:25:09PM +0100, Harri Porten wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > > Now, the idea: we need a LISP guru to adapt Arnt's .emacs so that it
> > > automatically determines and sets the appropriate indenting count for a
> > > file at opening.
> > This is impossible - it assumes the file is consistent in itself.
> > Open any kspread source file (except the ones I just hacked!), and you
> > will soon see that it's far from being the case.
> > There are statements all over the place. You can hardly determine
> > anything from that.
> 
> What's even worse. Since some people have switched to use proportional
> fonts (you know who you are ;) lines often become longer the 80 chars.
> Sometimes a bit painful to read with non-proportional fonts ... but
> don't want to start a flame war either ;)

This has nothing to do with proportionnal fonts.
If you use any editor under X, you can easily see/write lines
longer than 80 chars, provided you have a high enough resolution.
But this annoys text-mode developers so I avoid to do it.
(yes, there are such developers - imagine my face when I saw Simon under
a text-mode editor in Erlangen ! I converted him to XEmacs since then:-)

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