Re: text-mode tab questions

[Kevin Rodgers]

mike hardy wrote:

> I use text-mode where the default binding for tab is indent-relative
> (according to Info).  But I only like indent-relative once (following
> <cr>) and would like to have tab key thereafter use tab-to-tab-stop to
> EOL.  Can this be done such that all I have to do is hit tab key and 'it'
> figures out when to go into tab-to-tab-stop mode?

(defadvice indent-relative (around last-command-tab-to-tab-stop activate)
 "If the last command was `indent-relative', run `tab-to-tab-stop' instead."
 (if (eq last-command 'indent-relative) ; this-command
     (call-interactively 'tab-to-tab-stop)
   ad-do-it))


> Also, I think I'd like to start using untabify on a text buffer when I
> save it.  How can I do this so that C-x C-s invokes that automatically so
> that I don't have to remember (or maybe there's already something to do
> this)?


Try setting write-contents-hooks (which see) within a text-mode-hook function.

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Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>