indent tabs mode appears to be broken in 22.1

indent tabs mode appears to be broken in 22.1

[Michael Linck]

Intro: I loathe tabs
Problem:
My .emacs contains "(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)" globally and
again in cmode
"
(defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
  ;; my customizations for all of c-mode and related modes
  (c-set-offset 'substatement-open 0)
  ;; other customizations can go here
  (setq c-basic-offset 2)
  (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
; (c-toggle-auto-hungry-state 1)
  (c-toggle-hungry-state 1)
  )

"

How come when I select and then indent a buffer, it uses tabs?  Has it
always done that?  I seem to recall old versions of emacs not giving me
this problem.  Seems pretty awful.

Also, this version of emacs seems to crash a lot.  Any time you click
the mouse into the little action text field at the bottom of the emacs
window, there seems to be a fairly high likelyhood of it just folding up
instantly.  But if you're going to fix one first, I actually think the
tab thing is far more annoying :)

mike

Re: indent tabs mode appears to be broken in 22.1

[Stefan Monnier]

> Intro: I loathe tabs
> Problem:
> My .emacs contains "(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)" globally and
> again in cmode
> "
> (defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
>   ;; my customizations for all of c-mode and related modes
>   (c-set-offset 'substatement-open 0)
>   ;; other customizations can go here
>   (setq c-basic-offset 2)
>   (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
> ; (c-toggle-auto-hungry-state 1)
>   (c-toggle-hungry-state 1)
>   )

> "

> How come when I select and then indent a buffer, it uses tabs?

Can't reproduce it here.  I did "emacs -Q foo.c" and then
M-: (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) RET
and then C-x h C-M-\ to reindent the whole buffer, and there was no TAB
in sight (and yes, I did make sure that foo.c contains lines that need
to be indented far enough for TABs to be useful).

Note that reindenting the code with indent-tabs-mode==nil will not
*remove* TABs that were there before.

As for your other bug, please report it with M-x report-emacs-bug and
a precise recipe to (try and) reproduce it.

        Stefan
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