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From: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indenting with spaces rather than tabs
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:00:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8h8pkna.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-774c418a-a5c6-4def-8d37-d756ed6189b3-1611883564602@3c-app-mailcom-bs02

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
    (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

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-29  2:00 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 [this message]
2021-02-01  9:46   ` Philip K.
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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