On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:41:55PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > 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. >
And I don't remember the syntax, but you can get vim to use tabs instead of spaces also. > 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] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]