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> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 15:57:31 +0200
> From: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
> 
> Is it possible to make emacs automatically replace every 8 consecutive
> spaces with a tab?

You want "M-x tabify-region RET" (mark the region before that).