On Sunday, January 8, 2012, Guido Van Hoecke &lt;<a href="mailto:guivho@gmail.com">guivho@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; I can&#39;t help but feeling that this is in error!<br>&gt;<br>&gt; The tab-width is 8,<br>&gt; indent-tabs-mode is t<br>
&gt; and still, it uses spaces to indent, and only two of them.<br><br>I know nothing about csharp-mode, but you have a misperception here.  If Emacs feels that the proper place for that line to start is column 2, and the tab width is 8, then spaces *must* be used, because no combination of tabs can get you to column 2.  I know some modes have knobs you can adjust to get different indentation styles, but I don&#39;t know what&#39;s available in csharp-mode.<br>
<br>Given what Oscar pointed out, I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if the indentation function contains some implicit assumption that will result in spaces always being used, anyway.<br><br>-- <br><br>-PJ<br>