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From: ext-chunye.wang@nokia.com
Subject: Re: Force spaces instead of tabs
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:20:19 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uu02cshrv.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1160463886.894724.96810@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

"Martin" <loveslave@frustratedhousewives.zzn.com> writes:
> I need to have emacs indent C++ code using only spaces, and no tab
> characters.
> 
> I edited the options in the Programming/Languages/C group so that:
> C Basic Offset is 3
> C Tab Always Indent is "always indents"
> C Insert Tab Function is "insert-tab"
> C Syntactic Indentation is non-nil
> C Offsets Alist: substatement-open is 0
> 
> In many cases, the indentation is correct, but when I have several
> levels of sub-statements, tab characters are inserted anyway. See the
> example below. What other options control this behaviour?
> 
> void B::e()
> {
>    if ()
>    {
>       ;
>       if ()
>       {
> 	 ; // tab character at beginning of this line!
>       }
>       ;
>    }
> }
try (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-10  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-10  7:04 Force spaces instead of tabs Martin
2006-10-10  8:20 ` ext-chunye.wang [this message]
2006-10-10  8:32   ` Martin
2006-10-10 11:43 ` Hadron Quark
2006-10-10 14:30 ` martin
2006-10-10 23:46 ` Giorgos Keramidas

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