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   me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 08:48:26 JST me

   When I upgraded to #Debian 12, my #Emacs started misbehaving in all kinds of weird ways. I assumed it was some breaking change in my custom config script. Turns out I just needed to delete the cache.

   That makes no sense whatsoever.

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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 11:23:14 JST me

     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard Two words: significant whitespace
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 11:23:16 JST me

     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard Heresy!

     Though, to be fair, the reason I have custom scripts is that the way Emacs works out of the box is brain-dead (particularly the way it handles indentation).

     Tabs? Spaces? Why not both?

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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 11:26:36 JST me

     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard TBH, I'm really not sure why people get so upset about this.
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 11:36:31 JST me

     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard I find that stripping the unnecessary whitespace out of code makes it harder to read. While there's a lot more to code readability, forcing people to use it sensibly doesn't hurt anything, IMHO.
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 11:53:01 JST me

     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard How does this differ from a syntax rule?