From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Philip K." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indenting with spaces rather than tabs Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:46:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87mtwo15p1.fsf@posteo.net> References: <87o8h8pkna.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14147"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 01 10:48:42 2021 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 1l6Vp4-0003ZJ-VH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:48:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46916 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6Vp4-0005KD-0t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:48:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6Vms-0005Jy-Oi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:46:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:37024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6Vmq-0003xB-70 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:46:26 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BF78160062 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2021 10:46:20 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1612172780; bh=gfNbWFH9n9E6nLCMCotjnPpW+GRWPxrsg3zM2huRa1k=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:From; b=UVhKUdPw4zxuUQALgVWswnQK/ugEGEb3ii5jDT/ox44BM6SWLMNeFpUPWjc/E2FNw fuyhRt8qMqBXpw79ca3o3aUpXd1pnPoWnFmrlS0MBk4vmvgfqCWv9uOiLj7X51Z32C c43mgMYy712qmp7rUYZ9cAp2EDVWJOQ8baPkbTlARSSqkjtQy6Bt0ZWa/Z8rirVCvm FR9QXYBRR7ivHtAwgrU2U6nkaBe7aUH0Bm+nwADJ9FbAbyYvXhkrrTuSyhXNh6X5Lc CyUa6lTTbSoq1WtNXOECNBtcfmfW+deCTrLe81I8Ox0N0JrHzu9aRk25lojVbRe1PI Bv4hXL3aAQUMQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4DTjkg5bJlz6tmt for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2021 10:46:19 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87o8h8pkna.fsf@zoho.eu> (moasenwood's message of "Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:00:25 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.65; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout01.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:127512 Archived-At: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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.