Romain Francoise wrote:
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
emacs21 correctly preserves the tab, while emacs-snapshot converts it
to spaces.
There is no tab in the initial file, so a more accurate way to put it is
"emacs21 inserts a tab, and emacs-snapshot inserts spaces". Whether or
not that is a bug, I don't know... (tab-width is 8 by default)
It is a misunderstanding that pressing TAB inserts a tab character in
Emacs; rather, that key runs the command indent-for-tab-command which
in turn calls the function pointed to by indent-line-function. See
section 31.3.1 of the Emacs Manual (in emacs-snapshot). If you want
to insert a tab character, you should press C-q TAB.
That being said, I agree that it would be better if
indent-for-tab-command would indent with a tab rather than with spaces
in fundamental mode; unfortunately, there is apparently no option to
enable this.
Cheers,
Sven
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