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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> having emacs convert a TAB keypress into the correct number
>> of spaces
> 
> (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
> 
Thanks. This on its own didn't work for me. I also had to use 
tab-to-tab-stop (and setq-default rather than setq).

Chris Gordon-Smith
www.simsoup.info