Re: Spaces rather than tabs by a major mode hook

[goncholden]

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On Saturday, June 11th, 2022 at 10:20 PM, goncholden 
<goncholden@protonmail.com> wrote:


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> ------- Original Message -------
> On Saturday, June 11th, 2022 at 10:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
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> > > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 08:57:54 +0000
> > > From: goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com
> > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > >
> > > Ok. But it seemed to me that for fortran I am limited on what I can do,
> > > where the original developers did not.
> >
> > No, you aren't limited, it's the other way around: you have the Emacs
> > power at your fingertips, while they used some simpler editor that
> > placed the burden of indentation on the user.
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> Correct, the editor placed the burden of adding tabs on the user.
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> > > For instance, how can I get the tab key to just make a tab and
> > > pressing it again to make another tab. As I can do with spaces.
> >
> > You shouldn't need this, not at all. If you set the indentation
> > levels and variables for the style of these files, typing TAB will
> > insert as many TAB characters as needed to get to the correct column.
> > For example, if the line should be indented 3 tab stops, typing TAB
> > just once will insert all the 3 TABs in one go.
> >
> > That is what Emacs indentation commands are about: they insert the
> > whitespace as necessary according to your settings, so that you never
> > again should need to count TABs or insert them one by one.
> >
> > You should embrace this powerful feature instead of fighting against
> > it. It does need some setup to adapt to a particular style of
> > indentation, but that is one-time only, so really worth it.
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The point here is that they do not have a specific style, meaning the styles 
vary, but emacs imposes some specific style that one has to set up. And you 
cannot degress from it.

What is really needed is for me to instruct emacs to disregard style 
restrictions for some buffer.  Something that seems difficult to do.  The fact 
that you advise not to fight emacs is a problem in itself.

Is there a way to disable emacs indentation rules altogether?