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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: TAB
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:31:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FB905DC.7010706@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bpalus$969$1@news.net.uni-c.dk

David Rasmussen wrote:

> When I edit java-files, most of the times emacs inserts spaces when I 
> press TAB to indent something. But sometimes I've found it inserts a TAB 
> character instead. Why?


C-h v indent-tabs-mode

> How can I turn it off? I never want TAB 
> characters when editing Java or C++ source code files.

(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)	; for all modes, or

(add-hook 'java-mode-hook		; for just java mode
	  (lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-17 14:32 TAB David Rasmussen
2003-11-17 17:31 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-11-17 18:16   ` TAB Dan Anderson
2003-11-18 19:23     ` TAB jan
     [not found]   ` <mailman.170.1069096910.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-17 19:42     ` TAB Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-17 19:49     ` TAB Sean Richards
2003-11-19  9:42   ` TAB David Rasmussen
2003-11-19 14:17     ` TAB Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-18  0:45 ` TAB Dan Anderson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-17 20:42 TAB Joe Corneli
     [not found] <20020319140511.A2178@sasken.com>
     [not found] ` <20020319092050.960E9CD2B9@smtp.bcn.isoco.net>
2002-03-26 12:59   ` Tab Alexander Koptelov

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