From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: whitespace-cleanup + untabify? Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:32:43 +0200 Message-ID: <48558A7B.4030904@gmail.com> References: <1da58e0f-ef3b-4b56-bb83-c2aec1da0932@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <4855814A.9070101@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213565597 4035 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2008 21:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "dsevilla@gmail.com" To: Nikolaj Schumacher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 15 23:34:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7zrL-0006sl-ED for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:33:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7zqW-0001Rg-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7zqH-0001RY-Mg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7zqF-0001RM-VA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56046 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7zqF-0001RJ-SF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:32:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:44738) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7zqF-000172-JL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:32:51 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:64587 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K7zqC-0005m0-3O; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:32:48 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080615-0, 2008-06-15), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1K7zqC-0005m0-3O. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1K7zqC-0005m0-3O 3ad546d4fb74ede54f9f0f8958a51e9d X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54863 Archived-At: Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote: > >>>> 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? >>> 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. >> In that case it looks like a bug to me. Could you please send a bug report > >>>From the documentation it appears to me that it will transform 8 > spaces to tabs, but not vice-versa. So I don't think it's necessarily a > bug. But I do think it would be a good feature to add. You might be right about the doc, I don't understand it ;-) It looks like a simple alternative that is equivalent to untabify + delete-trailing-whitespace indeed is a good feature to add.