From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: exits funnel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Displaying TABS vs SPACES Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040610001455.10545.qmail@web52906.mail.yahoo.com> References: <86vfi8hbmb.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086826549 6935 80.91.224.253 (10 Jun 2004 00:15:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 10 02:15:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYDEA-0000zs-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:15:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYDEp-0001V9-MU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:16:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYDEh-0001V4-Hu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:16:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYDEg-0001Uc-1H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:16:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYDEf-0001UZ-Ub for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.190.39.183] (helo=web52906.mail.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BYDDb-0003mg-QW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.249.220.103] by web52906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:14:55 PDT Original-To: Kai Grossjohann , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <86vfi8hbmb.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:18923 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18923 --- Kai Grossjohann wrote: > exits funnel 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/