From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Anderson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TAB Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:45:53 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1069116353.4866.0.camel@hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069117697 8019 80.91.224.253 (18 Nov 2003 01:08:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 02:08:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALuLm-0008P6-01 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:08:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALvEa-00065m-4u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:04:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALvED-00065T-It for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:04:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALvDh-0005y2-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1ALvDh-0005xg-3G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.246.36.112] (helo=torre.pghoster.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALu0K-0003Kv-KW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:46:04 -0500 Original-Received: from 192.0.0.253 (syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com [24.59.76.83]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by torre.pghoster.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAI0jvv04051; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:45:57 -0600 Original-To: David Rasmussen In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-8mdk X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14336 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14336 While looking for something completely unrelated in the Emacs manual I found: Tabs vs. Spaces =============== Emacs normally uses both tabs and spaces to indent lines. If you prefer, all indentation can be made from spaces only. To request this, set `indent-tabs-mode' to `nil'. This is a per-buffer variable, so altering the variable affects only the current buffer, but there is a default value which you can change as well. *Note Locals::. There are also commands to convert tabs to spaces or vice versa, always preserving the columns of all nonblank text. `M-x tabify' scans the region for sequences of spaces, and converts sequences of at least three spaces to tabs if that can be done without changing indentation. `M-x untabify' changes all tabs in the region to appropriate numbers of spaces.