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I don't use emacs, but I use vim, and I suspect I've seen the problem you're talking about. Its the one where auto-indent puts extra indentation in pasted code? This is a problem of not knowing how to use your editor. For example, in vim I either open files in tabs (and use the vim yank buffer/clipboard) in the same editor, or go into `paste` mode to paste from the OS clipboard. I'm not sure what the solution is in emacs, but I guarantee there is one.


Ah ha! you guys weren't arguing about whitespace in code at all. This thread is just a proxy war for the vim/emacs holy war. I should have guessed.


"Proxy war", lol :p

Does that mean that nano and notepad will be recruited to do the actual fighting in the jungles of Vi-ed-nam?




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