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Chris Gordon-Smith <use.address@my.homepage.invalid> wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> I have recenly started using emacs for programming, after years using 
> KDevelop. One problem I have is indenting code. I have my own indentation 
> style. and ideally I would like to setup emacs to support it automatically. 
> However, in the short term I'll settle for having emacs convert a TAB 
> keypress into the correct number of spaces to fill whitespace up to the 
> next tabstop.

I now have a solution. It turned out to be simpler than I thought:

(global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'tab-to-tab-stop) 
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

Chris Gordon-Smith
www.simsoup.info

> 
> At the moment I have
> 
> (global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'self-insert-command) 
> 
> in my .emacs to force insertion of a tab, but I have to keep invoking 
> untabify manually (otherwise my code looks misaligned when I upload it to 
> Google Code).
> 
> Can anyone help.
> 
> Chris Gordon-Smith
> www.simsoup.info