[erlang-questions] Controversial subject of the day: tabs and spaces for indentation

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 02/05/2014 10:32 PM, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
> If the debate uncovers some workarounds that make the pain less
> painful (pun intended), then even better.

Have you read the previous threads? Numerous solutions were posted. 
Here's a quick one for vim users:

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-February/041719.html

And even better if you want it to also look good and close enough to get 
your patch accepted:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4085411/vim-indent-like-emacs

(Values may be slightly different for erlang-mode, I don't have this 
configured yet on this laptop.)

You can even use direnv to set an alias only for the erlang/otp folder 
on your machine that would use a special configuration file that 
includes those settings, so that you don't have to worry about it at 
all. (And if you don't like the direnv solution, there's a few others, 
including ones that only require vim.)

-- 
Loïc Hoguin
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