From: Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumacher@web.de>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "dsevilla@gmail.com" <dsevilla@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: whitespace-cleanup + untabify?
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:23:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wskqs88l.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4855814A.9070101@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun\, 15 Jun 2008 22\:53\:30 +0200")
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have never used whitespace-cleanup (I use delete-trailing-whitespace),
>>> but from the doc of this function it looks like it also untabifies if
>>> `indent-tabs-mode' is nil. Does not that work?
>>
>> Yes, that's what I thought, but was not the case, as if I applied
>> whitespace-cleanup and then untabify, the file was modified (that is,
>> it still converted *some* tabs to spaces), so I assumed it didn't work
>> this way. I had indent-tabs-mode set to nil also.
>
> In that case it looks like a bug to me. Could you please send a bug report
From the documentation it appears to me that it will transform 8
spaces to tabs, but not vice-versa. So I don't think it's necessarily a
bug. But I do think it would be a good feature to add.
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-15 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-14 10:56 whitespace-cleanup + untabify? dsevilla
2008-06-14 12:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-14 12:03 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-06-14 12:37 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-06-14 16:49 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-06-14 13:43 ` Juanma
2008-06-14 15:02 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-06-14 15:10 ` dsevilla
2008-06-14 16:24 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.13261.1213458961.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-15 20:05 ` dsevilla
[not found] ` <mailman.13267.1213460678.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-15 20:07 ` dsevilla
2008-06-15 20:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-15 21:23 ` Nikolaj Schumacher [this message]
2008-06-15 21:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-16 6:28 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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