Re: untabifying and local-variable for Emacs

[David Grundberg]

Dupuis wrote:
> John W. Eaton-3 wrote:
>   
> > I never saw any responses to the following message.  Does anyone have
> > strong objections to untabifying the Octave sources, and then
> > attempting to keep tabs out of the source tree in the future?
> >
> >
> >     
>
> Hello John,
>
> in my scripts, everything is indented what I think the right way is. Working
> inside Emacs, I'm always usign the 'tab' key(indent-line). If the text
> doesn't appear at the right place, I know I missed a parenthesis level, or
> closing an 'else' or whatever. So indentation is to me a good habit. Now
> about the implementation, tabs or space, there is so much space on hard disk
> todays that it doesn't matter to save a few chars on source files. If it can
> simplify source management, go ahead. But then could someone please post the
> way to have Emacs not use 'tab' chars inside source file ?
> Regards
>
> Pascal
>
>   

To make Emacs indent with spaces only, use M-x set-variable RET 
indent-tabs-mode RET nil RET.

If you have a buffer with tabs, you can run M-x untabify RET to expand 
them to spaces.

David