From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tabs for Indent and Spaces for Align Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:40:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <812fec5a0810211315v16d88aeay6daa6536779e910d@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224682907 11855 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2008 13:41:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:41:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Luke Hoersten" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 15:42:47 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ksdyy-0007Hg-8V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ksdxq-00010N-LF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsdxV-0000yc-Fe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsdxS-0000x3-RE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33627 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsdxS-0000wt-Le for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:51592) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsdxS-000080-Kj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAH554c.bah.pppool.de [77.135.85.76]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4751801CDB5; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:41:02 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <812fec5a0810211315v16d88aeay6daa6536779e910d@mail.gmail.com> (Luke Hoersten's message of "Tue\, 21 Oct 2008 15\:15\:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59037 Archived-At: "Luke Hoersten" wrote: > I've been Googling around for quite some time and have been unable to find a > way to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment ('M-x align'). I > know how to set emacs to use either spaces or tabs. I've got tabs only right > now for indentation (for work standards) but I don't want to use the mix tab > + spaces for alignment. I don't quite understand when you want to use either. Do you want to use tabs when programming and spaces when writing text? regards, Nikolaj Schumacher