indenting

["Billy N. Patton" <b-patton@ti.com>]

I'm new to emacs.  Started last Monday with XEmacs and switched this 
monday to gnu emacs.
I've been a 10+ year vim/gvim user.

Here the problem:

I like to line up my variables, = and values in a pretty form that makes 
it more pleasent to the eyes. ex:

int   i1            = 0;
int   another_one   = 1;
char* cp            = '\0';

I do not want tab characters.  done
I want to be able to hit the tab key after I type int and i1. but the 
int indents and follows the tab.  What I end up with is
              int i1 = 0;
THis is no more readable than having everything shifted to the left.

How can I stop this behavior?

I like the auto indenting then I add the { } and the lines afterward.
But I like to line up my code so that it is nice an neat, not a jumbled 
mess.

Any help would be appreciated

my current .emcas file

;;; XEmacs backwards compatibility file
(setq user-init-file
       (expand-file-name "init.el"
                         (expand-file-name ".xemacs" "~")))
(setq custom-file
       (expand-file-name "custom.el"
                         (expand-file-name ".xemacs" "~")))

(load-file user-init-file)
(load-file custom-file)

(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
;(setq c-tab-always-indent t)
(setq c-tab-always-indent nil)

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