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From: "Philip K." <philipk@posteo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indenting with spaces rather than tabs
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:46:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtwo15p1.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8h8pkna.fsf@zoho.eu> (moasenwood's message of "Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:00:25 +0100")

moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> wael-zwaiter wrote:
>
>> Want to indent with spaces rather than tabs and have found
>> the command
>>
>> (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
>>
>> But one can also use "M-x untabify".
>>
>> What should I use for my init file?
>
> (defun untab-all ()
>   (unless (member major-mode '(makefile-gmake-mode
>                                makefile-mode) ) ; exceptions

This should probably be (unless (derived-mode-p 'makefile-mode) ...)

>     (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))
>   nil) ; tell "did not write buffer to disk"
>
> (setq-default tab-width 3)
>
> (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
>
> ;; (setq before-save-hook nil)
> (defun before-save-hook-f ()
>   (untab-all)
>   (delete-trailing-whitespace) )
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'before-save-hook-)f

-- 
	Philip K.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-01  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-29  1:26 Indenting with spaces rather than tabs wael-zwaiter
2021-01-29  2:00 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-01  9:46   ` Philip K. [this message]
2021-02-01  9:59     ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-29  5:25 ` Robert Thorpe
2021-01-29 13:04   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-01-29 13:10     ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-30 18:46     ` Robert Thorpe
2021-01-30 19:25       ` wael-zwaiter
2021-01-31  6:02         ` Robert Thorpe
2021-01-31  6:11           ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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