From: John A Pershing Jr <pershing@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indentation settings problems
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:57:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82ws37qbex.fsf@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7953.1254599775.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
TriKri <kristoferkrus@hotmail.com> writes:
> I have a question about another indentation setting: When you set
> indent-tabs-mode to t, multiple spaces are replaced with tabs. But what
> if you only want the part of the indentation that comes from the
> c-basic-offset to be tabs, and the rest spaces? [...]
You are out of luck. Tabs are, in general, not portable from one
person's editor/IDE to another's, because nobody can seem to agree on
the primordial truth -- which is: TABS ARE EVERY 8 COLUMNS!
If you want code formatting to be portable across editors, users, and
IDEs, you need to turn tabs off.
-jp
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-19 10:46 Indentation settings problems TriKri
2009-09-20 1:55 ` Bernardo
2009-09-20 2:18 ` Bernardo
2009-09-20 18:37 ` TriKri
2009-09-20 18:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-09-20 19:41 ` Andreas Politz
2009-09-24 7:42 ` TriKri
2009-09-20 22:22 ` TriKri
2009-09-21 10:57 ` Bernardo
2009-09-22 18:02 ` TriKri
2009-09-22 22:54 ` Bernardo
[not found] ` <mailman.7104.1253471858.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-21 21:27 ` jpkotta
2009-09-23 8:38 ` TriKri
2009-09-23 11:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-10-01 22:44 ` TriKri
2009-10-03 5:45 ` tomas
2009-10-03 19:56 ` TriKri
[not found] ` <mailman.7953.1254599775.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-07 18:57 ` John A Pershing Jr [this message]
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