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: whitespace-cleanup + untabify? Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:23:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1da58e0f-ef3b-4b56-bb83-c2aec1da0932@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <4855814A.9070101@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213565032 2700 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2008 21:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "dsevilla@gmail.com" To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 15 23:24:36 2008 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 1K7ziF-0004pZ-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:24:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45396 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7zhR-0005VY-JM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7zh7-0005Sh-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7zh6-0005Rg-LB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55910 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7zh6-0005RQ-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:56741) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7zh6-00004q-72 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE35DFEF0A6; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:23:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [77.189.15.115] (helo=thursday) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1K7zh5-0002LS-00; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:23:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4855814A.9070101@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun\, 15 Jun 2008 22\:53\:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) X-Sender: n_schumacher@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+94/n20tN7Vb532ELLhufHdCAasqKm1teRQQyb 6WEZs4Asy7E/ntGaHS5LAGXWPeOPRJEzH+rqeSt7kA2zS6v5jK lc5jYkjZv7vVyD0K9Tag== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:54862 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" 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