From: Kevin Dziulko <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu>
Subject: Re: replace tab stops with spaces
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:03:33 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210141002370.11280-100000@klaatu.canisius.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAA89C8.3000004@gmx.de>
With the cursor at the beginning of the file, type M-x replace string.
At the "Replace string:" prompt, hit tab key then enter.
At the "Replace string with:" prompt hit 4 spaces then enter.
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Roland Reichenberg wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> in our small development team nearly everybody uses a different editor
> to work on our sources. And not every editor is configured to use blank
> spaces instead of tab stops. So our sources contain both real tab stops
> and blank spaces.
>
> This bothers me while editing buffers. Is there an easy-to-use command
> which converts all tab stops into 4 blank spaces?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roland
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-14 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-14 9:09 replace tab stops with spaces Roland Reichenberg
2002-10-14 9:35 ` Edric M Ellis
2002-10-14 14:03 ` Kevin Dziulko [this message]
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2002-10-14 14:25 Bingham, Jay
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