Re: Force spaces instead of tabs

[martin <nospam@nospam.net>]

>>>>> Martin  <loveslave@frustratedhousewives.zzn.com> writes:
    > Date: 10 Oct 2006 00:04:46 -0700
    > 
    > I need to have emacs indent C++ code using only spaces, and no tab
    > characters.
    > 
    > I edited the options in the Programming/Languages/C group so that:
    > C Basic Offset is 3
    > C Tab Always Indent is "always indents"
    > C Insert Tab Function is "insert-tab"
    > C Syntactic Indentation is non-nil
    > C Offsets Alist: substatement-open is 0
    > 
    > In many cases, the indentation is correct, but when I have several
    > levels of sub-statements, tab characters are inserted anyway. See the
    > example below. What other options control this behaviour?
    > 
    > void B::e()
    > {
    >    if ()
    >    {
    >       ;
    >       if ()
    >       {
    > 	 ; // tab character at beginning of this line!
    >       }
    >       ;
    >    }
    > }
    > 
    > 

Hi,

customize the variable indent-tabs-mode.

Martin
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