Re: Indenting with spaces rather than tabs

[Emanuel Berg]

wael-zwaiter wrote:

> Want to indent with spaces rather than tabs and have found
> the command
>
> (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
>
> But one can also use "M-x untabify".
>
> What should I use for my init file?

(defun untab-all ()
  (unless (member major-mode '(makefile-gmake-mode
                               makefile-mode) ) ; exceptions
    (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))
  nil) ; tell "did not write buffer to disk"

(setq-default tab-width 3)

(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

;; (setq before-save-hook nil)
(defun before-save-hook-f ()
  (untab-all)
  (delete-trailing-whitespace) )
(add-hook 'before-save-hook #'before-save-hook-)f

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