Re: Substiotution of tabs with spaces...

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.04.2005 um 15:15 schrieb Pascal Bourguignon:

> Also, with my emacs configuration,
> M-x replace-string RET TAB
> tries to substitute a string of four spaces, not one tabulation.
>
> Try:
>
>  M-x replace-regexp RET C-q TAB + RET SPC SPC SPC RET
>  M-x replace-string RET C-q TAB RET SPC SPC SPC RET

Yes, that's something I've seen here too. I remember that I failed a 
few times to remove, i.e. replace-regexp with nothing, [SPC TAB]+$ -- 
there could be a better regexp too. Do have an idea why TAB is 
sometimes \t and sometimes a few spaces?

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Greetings

  Pete