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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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dennison@telepath.com writes:

> > using TABS in code is very very very bad idea.
> >
> > please, no tabs in code.
> 
> Unfortunately some (evil) editors actually toss them in on their own on the
> theory that it saves characters.
> 
Throw this line in your .emacs file:

(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

and life is good...