Thanks Steve. I've tried to use this on files that were originally
written with the tab==spaces approach, but it doesn't seem to
convert all the spaces to tabs. I can understand why, becuase
there would be places where you really wanted spaces. I guess
what I would want is just the indention spaces changed. Not sure
if that is possible.
The other thing that plagues me is not being able to hit tab
2 times to get an indention of 8. For example, some people
on my team like 8 space indent, so when I go into their code
and try to honor their indention scheme, I have to use 1 tab and
4 spaces.
void foo() {
int i = 0; // this is where the original author goes with tabs.
int x = 1; // this is where I can go with a tab
}
Is this due to the syntax intelligent indention via cc-mode? Actually
I'm using jde mode which I believe totally relies on cc-mode.
I really prefer spaces because I think it is ultimately the answer to
indention harmony within a development group. But, the rule in this
group is tabs. I'll get used to ....
thanks
Steve Haflich wrote:
> The key is M-x untabify. You can invoke this automatically with
> something like te following untested form in your ~/.emacs
>
> (add-hook java-mode
> (function (lambda ()
> (add-hook 'local-write-file-hooks
> (function (lambda ()
> (save-excursion
> (widen)
> (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))))))))
>
> This is a good way to install other mode-specific source normalization
> hooks. For instance, I always delete trailing whitespace in my source
> buffers. This greatly reduces the noise merge diff output during
> cooperative development.
>
> Remember, this will munge your code in ways you dno't expect if you
> have literal tab chars inside literal strings.
