>From: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>

>> For (1) something like
>>
>>  (setq c-basic-offset 8
>>       indent-tabs-mode t
>>       c-insert-tab-function 'tab-to-tab-stop)
>>
>>  (setq c-syntactic-indentation nil) ; maybe, or maybe not this one
>>
>> should be close to the behavior you're looking for.
>>
>> For (2), try
>>
>>  (c-toggle-electric-state -1)

>Thanks a lot for this information.  I have taken your tips and done
>additional online research.  I came up with the following .emacs file for
>this project that has absolutely horrid indentation and use of tabs:
>
>  (defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
>    (c-toggle-electric-state -1)
>    (define-key c-mode-base-map (kbd "TAB") 'self-insert-command))
>  (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)

Nerius,

That's great.  I'm glad I was able to give you a starting point.



>It almost behaves how I want now.  I hit Tab, it creates a tab.  It does not
>start indenting stuff when I type a special character such as a paren or a
>semicolon.  However, there is still one thing needed to make it behave just
>like Notepad.  Let's say my cursor is positioned immediately following a tab
>character.  When I hit Backspace (I believe that causes a function
>"backward-delete-char" to be called), it converts that tab character into a
>bunch of spaces, then deletes the last space.  I would really like Backspace
>to just delete the tab character.  Is there any way to do this?  I suppose
>I'd have to rebind Backspace to a function other than backward-delete-char,
>but I'm not sure which function.

In C-mode, "C-h k DEL" tells me that DEL calls c-electric-backspace,
which in turn calls the function bound to c-backspace-function.

For me, c-backspace-function is bound to
backward-delete-char-untabify, which will convert a tab into a series
of spaces.

Maybe

    (setq c-backspace-function 'backward-delete-char)

is what you're looking for.

Steve