I use only tabs for indenting while programming with 'indent-tabs-mode'.
Also while programming I use 'align' to line up variables etc. Align uses
tabs and spaces to align to tab-stops and I just want it to use spaces.
"align lines up text in selected region, using whitespaces (or tabs) as the
column delimiter"
-- http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AlignCommands

I'm looking for a way to use only tabs for indentation while using only
spaces for alignment.

Luke Hoersten
http://Luke.Hoersten.org


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> wrote:

> "Luke Hoersten" <luke@hoersten.org> wrote:
>
> > I've been Googling around for quite some time and have been unable to
> find a
> > way to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment ('M-x align'). I
> > know how to set emacs to use either spaces or tabs. I've got tabs only
> right
> > now for indentation (for work standards) but I don't want to use the mix
> tab
> > + spaces for alignment.
>
> I don't quite understand when you want to use either.  Do you want to
> use tabs when programming and spaces when writing text?
>
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher
>