Re: death to tabs

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

John Russell wrote:
> Ok, seriously, I don't ever want to see another tab as long as I
> live.  I want _every__ tab I ever wrote converted to spaces right
> now and I never want to have a tab show up when I hit the TAB key
> again.  

Amen to that!  Working on files at home then at uni or vice versa screws 
up the tabs all the time! Our lecturers code drives me mad!  Some of 
their code is indented 2 spaces while others use non standard tab 
offsets with multiple tabs and when we add new code it goes all wonky 
because of tabs :(

What I'd like is for emacs to create new files without tabs and detect 
if a file uses tabs & guess the right offset to preserve others 
preference or retabify everything to make it neat (and have tabs only 
for makefiles).  Failing that I am prepared to damn them all and use 
Sebatien Routers code! :)


Anyone help with this?
Danx