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From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
Subject: Re: Substiotution of tabs with spaces...
Date: 15 Apr 2005 15:15:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87is2o9o6i.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1631.1113563465.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 15.04.2005 um 11:06 schrieb luca.spinacci@seleniacomms.com:
> 
> > is there a smart way to replace all tabs with 3 spaces in a buffer
> > edited
> >
> 
> How about: replace-regexp RET TAB + RET SPC SPC SPC RET ?
> Or: replace-string RET TAB RET SPC SPC SPC RET ?

It's not satisfactory.  For example, try it on:

(progn
    (find-file "/tmp/exemple")
    (erase-buffer)
    (insert "\n\ta\ta\n\taa\taa\n\taaa\taaa\n"))


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 

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
That will sure show you.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-15 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-15  9:06 Substiotution of tabs with spaces luca.spinacci
2005-04-15 11:10 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.1631.1113563465.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-15 13:15   ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2005-04-15 22:49     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1690.1113606252.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-15 23:38       ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-04-17 21:42         ` Peter Dyballa
2005-04-16  4:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-17 20:05         ` Steinar Børmer
2005-04-17 21:18           ` Peter Dyballa
2005-04-17 21:50           ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1796.1113775705.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-18  6:39             ` Steinar Børmer
2005-04-18  0:03   ` Quokka
     [not found] <mailman.1624.1113556776.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-15 10:52 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-04-15 19:55 ` Alan Mackenzie

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