From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two adjacent spaces and tabify
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 18:29:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838ujkpcan.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141109153307.GA3681@acm.acm>
> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 15:33:07 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> I have some elisp source on which tabify has been run. This is fine and
> good, but in many places in comments (and even strings), two spaces have
> been replaced by a tab. Even worse, in many other places, two spaces
> have been replaced by tab, space.
>
> With a tab-width of 8, one of these can be expected to occur every
> fourth end of sentence, more or less. This is not good.
>
> It is easy enough to configure tabify such that only spaces at the
> beginning of a line are candidates for tabs, but that might wipe out
> desired tabs (for example, in commented out code).
>
> Does anybody already have a solution for this problem, or any good ideas
> on how to fix the current state (or even how to stop it happening in the
> first place)?
Don't tabify. Instead, set indent-tabs-mode to non-nil, and
_reindent_ everything, e.g. with C-M-\.
Tabify is for text files and ASCII art, not for program sources.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-09 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-09 15:33 Two adjacent spaces and tabify Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-09 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-11-10 9:50 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-11-10 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 11:22 ` Sebastien Vauban
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