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Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook
From: |
goncholden |
Subject: |
Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Jun 2022 19:40:05 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 7:24 AM, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com writes:
>
> > > > ((c++-mode
> > > > (indent-tabs-mode . t)
> > > > (c-mode
> > > > (indent-tabs-mode . t)))
> >
> > Suppose I have a file with tabs, would the change show the tabs as
> > spaces? I would rather have the file show as it is. If there are
> > tabs in the file, would (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) show them
> > as spaces?
>
>
> It doesn't affect how tabs/spaces are displayed. It just defines if
> emacs' indentation commands may insert tabs. Even with indent-tabs-mode
> set to nil, you can still manually insert a TAB using C-q TAB.
>
> If you want to convert a file from/to tabs, you can use the commands
> tabify and untabify.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
Makes sense but I find it somewhat complicated.
It works well if I press return and get indentation with spaces. But if
someone presses the tab key, why does it not accept that tab?
I would like to be able to introduce a tab with the tab key but indent with
spaces.
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, (continued)
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Yuri Khan, 2022/06/09
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/09
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Yuri Khan, 2022/06/09
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/11
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/09
- RE: [External] : Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Drew Adams, 2022/06/09
- RE: [External] : Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Drew Adams, 2022/06/09
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Tassilo Horn, 2022/06/09
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook,
goncholden <=
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Tassilo Horn, 2022/06/09
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Po Lu, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, tomas, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/10
- Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook, goncholden, 2022/06/10