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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: newbie problem - how to
Date: 1998/11/16
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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.