Re: replace TAB with 8 whitespaces

[Peter J. Acklam]

"jinneemop" <jinneemop@isee.zju.edu> wrote:

> I wish to use 8 spaces to indent source code under c++ mode. 
> When I press TAB, I'd like emacs to insert 8 spaces instead.
> How can I do this?

   (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

Peter

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