On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Chad Brown<[email protected]> wrote: >> Emacs is great for writing Lisp. Now, if only I could find the correct >> .emacs invocation to make the tab key insert a tab character in C >> mode, rather than a bunch of spaces the way His Holy Lunacy RMS >> desires. If I wanted spaces instead of tabs, I'd type them! > > OT for the list, but this is trivial in emacs for several years now, and RMS > has nothing to do with the special code for C mode (which is called CC-mode, > and supports a bevy of languages, and is complicated enough that it can > probably boot minix on it's own by now). > > *Chad > >
In the interests of not slandering Emacs excessively, I'd like to state that I seem to have figured out my .emacs file to a point where hitting a tab inserts a tab. That will be all. John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
