Incoming from Steve Lamb: > Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Bob Proulx makes good points elsewhere in this thread. Whether you > > like the indentation as syntax feature is really a matter of > > taste. Personally, I am ambivalent about it. On the one hand it makes > > So have EMACS treat the tab key as the equivolent number of spaces and > write the file out using spaces instead of tabs. I'd tell you how but I'm a > vim user and that is how vim handles it.
fwiw: <CTRL>-x h # mark entire buffer <ESC>-x untabify # convert tabs to equivalent no. of spaces And you can stuff (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) into your startup file so the TAB key inserts the equivalent number of spaces instead of TAB characters. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]