From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Substiotution of tabs with spaces... Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:49:55 +0200 Message-ID: <0ba0ecd2db7851f6dd7fc97986b72261@Web.DE> References: <87is2o9o6i.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113606375 31558 80.91.229.2 (15 Apr 2005 23:06:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 16 01:06:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMZt2-0005V8-A9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:06:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMZwc-0001Pn-CO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:09:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMZr4-0007B7-K1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMZr2-0007AQ-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMZp6-0006NN-7U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.226] (helo=smtp08.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DMZeJ-0006Ys-FB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.245.189.76] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.104 #268) id 1DMZdN-0007pl-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:49:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87is2o9o6i.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> Original-To: GNU Emacs List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25740 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25740 Am 15.04.2005 um 15:15 schrieb Pascal Bourguignon: > Also, with my emacs configuration, > M-x replace-string RET TAB > tries to substitute a string of four spaces, not one tabulation. > > Try: > > M-x replace-regexp RET C-q TAB + RET SPC SPC SPC RET > M-x replace-string RET C-q TAB RET SPC SPC SPC RET > Yes, that's something I've seen here too. I remember that I failed a few times to remove, i.e. replace-regexp with nothing, [SPC TAB]+$ -- there could be a better regexp too. Do have an idea why TAB is sometimes \t and sometimes a few spaces? -- Greetings Pete