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"Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@hp.com> writes:

> As long as you are including this you might as well also include that
> M-i will also always insert an actual TAB character.

No, M-i will obey indent-tabs-mode, AFAIK.

In fact, I just tested it, it seems to be the case.

Also, M-i advances to the next tab stop, and if that happens to be at
a spot that a tab character cannot reach, then M-i will use spaces
even if indent-tabs-mode is t.
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