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Re: death to tabs


From: Stefan Kamphausen
Subject: Re: death to tabs
Date: 7 Apr 2003 01:16:09 -0700

Hi John,

John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> wrote in message 
news:<m3wuiaxb9d.fsf@debussy.cisco.com>...
> Ok, seriously, I don't ever want to see another tab as long as I
> live.  I want _every__ tab I ever wrote converted to spaces right
> now and I never want to have a tab show up when I hit the TAB key
> again.  All spaces all the time.  
> 
> I found 
>   (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
> 
> for future tab annihilation but how can I convert a doc with tabs in
> it to just spaces.  Thanks for the help.

very old holy war that is...
You might be interested in reading
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html

In contrast to the code mentioned there I'd use (make-local-hook
'write-contents-hook) instead of make-local-variable, use (when
(search-forward...)) instead of (if ..) and I chose to leave trailing
whitespaces in lines (to make them rectangle-selectable) so I removed
a few lines.

Best Regards
Stefan Kamphausen


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