[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#888492: mcedit: Do not enable 'fake half tabs' by default.

[Witold Baryluk]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.19-1
Severity: wishlist

'Fake half tabs' in Tabulation section of Editor options is extremeally
annoying, if not stupid.

It is better for everybody to either set 'Fill tabs with spaces' instead
or (which I prefer), no tabulation-modifying options with 'Tab spacing: 4'.

Using fake half tabs, especially by default, serves no purpose, and leads
to garbage files from newcomers, especially if 'Visible tabs' options is
not enabled.

Regards,
Witold

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pl_PL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  e2fslibs      1.43.8-2
ii  libc6         2.26-5
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.54.3-2
ii  libgpm2       1.20.7-4
ii  libslang2     2.3.1a-1
ii  libssh2-1     1.8.0-1
ii  mc-data       3:4.8.19-1

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.60
ii  perl          5.26.1-4
ii  unzip         6.0-21

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                              <none>
ii  atril [pdf-viewer]               1.18.3-2
ii  bzip2                            1.0.6-8.1
ii  catdvi                           0.14-12.1+b1
pn  dbview                           <none>
pn  djvulibre-bin                    <none>
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]              3.26.0-3
ii  file                             1:5.32-1
ii  genisoimage                      9:1.1.11-3+b2
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]                  1:3.7.4-1+b1
ii  imagemagick                      8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]  8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
pn  libaspell-dev                    <none>
ii  links                            2.14-5
pn  odt2txt                          <none>
ii  poppler-utils                    0.61.1-2
ii  python                           2.7.14-4
ii  python-boto                      2.44.0-1
ii  python-tz                        2017.2-2
ii  texlive-binaries                 2017.20170613.44572-8+b1
ii  w3m                              0.5.3-36
ii  zip                              3.0-11+b1

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