Re: whitespace-cleanup + untabify?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

dsevilla@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jun 14, 6:24 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
> <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> dsevi...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Dear all:
>>> I'm a no tab person. I would like my whitespace-cleanup command to
>>> also perform an untabify. How can this be done? I haven't found any
>>> option that connects untabify and whitespace-cleanup. I'm using:
>>> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
>> I have never used whitespace-cleanup (I use delete-trailing-whitespace),
>>   but from the doc of this function it looks like it also untabifies if
>> `indent-tabs-mode' is nil. Does not that work?
> 
> Hi, Lennart:
> 
> Yes, that's what I thought, but was not the case, as if I applied
> whitespace-cleanup and then untabify, the file was modified (that is,
> it still converted *some* tabs to spaces), so I assumed it didn't work
> this way. I had indent-tabs-mode set to nil also.
> 
> Thanks,
> diego.

Hi diego

In that case it looks like a bug to me. Could you please send a bug report

   M-x report-emacs-bug

You need to attach an example and exact instructions (starting from 
"emacs -Q").

Thanks.