From: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
To: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [emacs] tabs, spaces, and indentation
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:14:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiks7Nzb2DQmHEO-CH=rEvUoL3=qewOtUcJBo9OC@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=qJP31hUeZH4iVfW0i1qeCVAXuPw=k7_U6WfMp@mail.gmail.com>
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>
> > However, there is still one thing needed to make it behave just
> > like Notepad. Let's say my cursor is positioned immediately following a
> tab
> > character. When I hit Backspace (I believe that causes a function
> > "backward-delete-char" to be called), it converts that tab character into
> a
> > bunch of spaces, then deletes the last space. I would really like
> Backspace
> > to just delete the tab character. Is there any way to do this? I
> suppose
> > I'd have to rebind Backspace to a function other than
> backward-delete-char,
> > but I'm not sure which function.
>
> Is it bound to backward-delete-char? Or is it bound to
> backward-delete-char-untabify? I believe the former does what you
> want.
>
Woohoo! My final .emacs file does just what I want.
(defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
(c-toggle-electric-state -1)
(setq tab-width 8
c-basic-offset 8
indent-tabs-mode t
backward-delete-char-untabify-method nil)
(define-key c-mode-base-map (kbd "TAB") 'self-insert-command))
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-11 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-06 20:06 [emacs] tabs, spaces, and indentation Nerius Landys
2010-10-07 4:22 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-08 21:44 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-08 22:12 ` Nerius Landys
2010-10-07 6:26 ` Jonathan Groll
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1286432793.11901.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-07 9:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-09 2:08 ` Steve Revilak
2010-10-11 20:19 ` Nerius Landys
2010-10-11 21:43 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-11 22:14 ` Nerius Landys [this message]
2010-10-12 1:42 ` Steve Revilak
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1286828409.23066.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-11 21:58 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] <mailman.5.1286400966.24129.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-06 22:05 ` despen
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