From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: newbie problem - how to
Date: 1998/11/16
Date: 1998-11-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33e7kobfs.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccu30789mb.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> dennison@telepath.com writes:
>
> > Unfortunately some (evil) editors actually toss them in on their own on the
> > theory that it saves characters.
>
> ...which has got to be one of the stupidest data-compression techniques
> ever invented!
>
> It takes a little effort to make Emacs eliminate tabs, but it's not that
> hard. But be careful not to untabify any Makefiles! :-(
Use the command
M-x untabify
to get rid of existing tabs.
Put this line in your .emacs file:
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
so you'll never put a tab (which are quite evil, IMHO) in your file
again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-16 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-06 0:00 newbie problem - how to Dana Holland
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-07 0:00 ` Dana Holland
1998-11-07 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-08 0:00 ` dewar
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-11-08 0:00 ` dewar
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Dana Holland
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Dana Holland
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-09 0:00 ` Mark McKinney
1998-11-10 0:00 ` Dana Holland
1998-11-08 0:00 ` bill_so
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Dana Holland
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-09 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-10 0:00 ` bob_ev
1998-11-10 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-11-07 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07 0:00 ` bob
1998-11-07 0:00 ` Dana Holland
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