From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: viper-mode, how to indent with spaces instead of a tab Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:22:41 -0400 Message-ID: <8761zlaufi.fsf@adboyd.com> References: <8db2bb8b-d395-421f-ba98-ec0083f43649@di5g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366223007 19523 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2013 18:23:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:23:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 20:23:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1USX11-0007an-8r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:23:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USX10-00009h-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USX0j-00009O-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:23:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USX0g-0002WJ-LN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48413) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USX0g-0002W9-FB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1USX0Y-0006wk-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:23:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 72.185.97.240 ([72.185.97.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:23:02 +0200 Original-Received: from david by 72.185.97.240 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:23:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.185.97.240 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TefGPUYZ64KHZZEEQZeW+srkw40= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90213 Archived-At: eisenfinger writes: > In viper-mode, how do you cause spaces to be inserted instead of a tab > character. For example, in Vi (elvis) the startup file would contain > 'set it=spaces'. Evidently, (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) is > not sufficient by itself for viper-mode. I don't understand the key > binding process well enough to write my own script. Hmm, I know I used to have spaces rather than tabs back when I used viper. I'll see if I can find my old .emacs file, and what is in it. Although, I think I have a .viperc or something like that as well. Let me look around. Dave