How to change indenting from spaces to tabs?

How to change indenting from spaces to tabs?

[TriKri]

Hello!

Programming C, Emacs indents by inserting 4 spaces for each indent depth.
Now, surrendering to the rules of the OpenOCD project, indenting should be
done by inserting 1 tab instead of 4 spaces, where the tab width should be
set to 4.

How can I make Emacs indent using tabs, and possibly also changing the tab
width?

/Kristofer
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RE: How to change indenting from spaces to tabs?

[Drew Adams]

> indenting should be done by inserting 1 tab instead
> of 4 spaces, where the tab width should be set to 4.
> 
> How can I make Emacs indent using tabs, and possibly also 
> changing the tab width?

(setq-default indent-tabs-mode t)
(setq default-tab-width 4)

Or perhaps set these only for the mode you want (put in the mode hook):

(setq indent-tabs-mode t
      tab-width        4)


The Emacs manual is your friend. Use `i' to look up keywords (such as `tab' and
`width') in the index.

Re: How to change indenting from spaces to tabs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:16:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: TriKri <kristoferkrus@hotmail.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> How can I make Emacs indent using tabs, and possibly also changing the tab
> width?

There's a large section on interactive customization of C Mode
indentation in the CC Mode manual.  I recommend to read it.