From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indenting with spaces rather than tabs Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:00:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87o8h8pkna.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38931"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:noFlxHXMtIOpt/B9U1BNog5MYbM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 03:01:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l5J6H-000A0j-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:01:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44066 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5J6G-0000GN-BW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:01:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5J5P-0000G2-83 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5J5N-0005Z9-DI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l5J5L-0008z6-19 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:00:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127418 Archived-At: wael-zwaiter wrote: > Want to indent with spaces rather than tabs and have found > the command > > (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) > > But one can also use "M-x untabify". > > What should I use for my init file? (defun untab-all () (unless (member major-mode '(makefile-gmake-mode makefile-mode) ) ; exceptions (untabify (point-min) (point-max))) nil) ; tell "did not write buffer to disk" (setq-default tab-width 3) (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) ;; (setq before-save-hook nil) (defun before-save-hook-f () (untab-all) (delete-trailing-whitespace) ) (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'before-save-hook-)f -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal