From: exits funnel <exitsfunnel@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Displaying TABS vs SPACES
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:14:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040610001455.10545.qmail@web52906.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86vfi8hbmb.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net>
--- Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote:
> exits funnel <exitsfunnel@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to find a way to distinguish tabs from
> > consecutive spaces in some source code I've
> inherited
> > so I can get the formatting straightened out, but
> I
> > can't figure out how. I'm sure there must be a
> mode
> > which allows me to distinguish the two. If anyone
> > could point me in the right direction I'd really
> > appreciate it.
>
> You can do C-x h M-x untabify RET to convert all
> tabs into the right
> number of spaces, or C-x h M-x tabify RET to convert
> all whitespace
> into the shortest tab/space combination.
>
> You can do M-x set-variable RET tab-width RET before
> that to specify
> the width of a tab.
>
> Does this help?
Not really :) It's okay though; I ended up using
hexl-mode which satisfied my needs. I'm surprised
this is so hard in EMACS. Thanks for taking the time
to reply.
-exits
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-10 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-03 3:08 Displaying TABS vs SPACES exits funnel
2004-06-03 11:22 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-03 11:25 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-10 0:11 ` exits funnel
2004-06-10 0:50 ` Jim Marshall
2004-06-10 7:09 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-03 12:10 ` Kevin Dziulko
2004-06-03 16:03 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-06-10 0:14 ` exits funnel [this message]
2004-06-10 16:44 ` Drew Adams
2004-06-10 17:01 ` Drew Adams
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