From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TAB Date: 18 Nov 2003 11:23:09 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3FB905DC.7010706@yahoo.com> <1069092961.916.220.camel@hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069115531 3186 80.91.224.253 (18 Nov 2003 00:32:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 01:32:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALtmq-0006im-01 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:32:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALujW-0000fA-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALuiu-0000dS-PR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALuiM-0000Yr-HI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [210.50.76.52] (helo=smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALuYn-0007dW-EW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: from ABE (210.50.172.40) by smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.020) id 3F8F522A00AD0192 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:20:10 +1100 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <1069092961.916.220.camel@hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com> Original-Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14335 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14335 Dan Anderson writes: > That tells him how to turn of tabs. Is there any way to change tabs > to spaces? i.e. when tabbing insert 4 spaces instead of a tab (if > tabs default to 4 spaces long)? You can change tabs to spaces with `untabify' and back with `tabify' -- jan