From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indentation with spaces Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:08:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87fskezg7s.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3941"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5/5sEwxdcE6agZjLR5aDXkmCQVY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 09 05:09:20 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nz8Xv-0000qW-8A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:09:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55672 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nz8Xt-0006nT-S8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nz8XE-0006n5-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:08:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nz8XC-0003cH-CP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nz8X9-000AVa-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:08:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137539 Archived-At: Skip Montanaro wrote: > As for TAB not inserting a literal TAB character, > indentation is controlled by the major mode. I believe that > for ELisp, the default indentation is just two spaces. > (Don't quote me on that though.) Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not be used. Anyway here is how I do it: ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; ;; this file: ;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/tabs.el (defun untab-all () (unless (member major-mode '(makefile-gmake-mode makefile-mode) ) ; exceptions (untabify (point-min) (point-max))) nil) ; "did not write buffer to disk" (setq-default tab-width 3) (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) (provide 'tabs) And then ;; (setq before-save-hook nil) (defun before-save-hook-f () (untab-all) (delete-trailing-whitespace) ) (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'before-save-hook-f) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal