Re: Indentation with spaces

[goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>]

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, June 9th, 2022 at 3:08 PM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:


> Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> > As for TAB not inserting a literal TAB character,
> > indentation is controlled by the major mode. I believe that
> > for ELisp, the default indentation is just two spaces.
> > (Don't quote me on that though.)
>
>
> Why is `indent-tabs-mode' t by default? Tabs should not
> be used.

I agree and found it very annoying.  Could one request a change?


> Anyway here is how I do it:
>
> ;;; -- lexical-binding: t --
> ;;
> ;; this file:
> ;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/tabs.el
>
> (defun untab-all ()
> (unless (member major-mode '(makefile-gmake-mode
> makefile-mode) ) ; exceptions
> (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))
> nil) ; "did not write buffer to disk"
>
> (setq-default tab-width 3)
>
> (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
>
> (provide 'tabs)
>
> And then
>
> ;; (setq before-save-hook nil)
> (defun before-save-hook-f ()
> (untab-all)
> (delete-trailing-whitespace) )
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'before-save-hook-f)
>
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