Re: [emacs] tabs, spaces, and indentation

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Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi.  I use emacs all the time for programming and shell scripting.  Now
> I'm dabbling in an open source project that is written in C, and the
> entire code base uses tabs extensively (instead of spaces for
> indentation).  I very much prefer to use spaces for indentation; however I
> must use tabs for this project in order to make the code consistent.  I am
> looking for some quick command or something that will place my emacs into
> a special mode that is suitable for working with tabbed C code.  Then of
> course I'd like a command that puts me back into the regular settings that
> I have and am used to.  (In other words, a toggle on and off.)
>
> Here are some details.
>
> I am running FreeBSD 8.0 and I have emacs installed with no X11, from the
> port editors/emacs-nox11.  The version of emacs is 23.2_4,2.  I have no
> additional bells and whistles installed for emacs other than what comes
> with this FreeBSD port and my .emacs config, which is more or less like
> so:
>
> (setq transient-mark-mode t)
> (setq make-backup-files nil)
> ;(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) [ commented out ]
> (setq-default c-basic-offset 2)
>
> I tried searching on Google for commands that may help me, but most of
> what I found explained how to enable the kind of behavior that I'm NOT
> looking (I'm going in the opposite direction unfortunately).

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