Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 15:26 UTC
Message-ID: <1192548367.3821.4.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <47148F72.1090602@users.sourceforge.net>

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:16 +0200, Adam Piatyszek wrote:

> 
> And if one change the tab size, it will result in a messy alignment in
> line 5.

Which is why one should never should change the tab size from anything but 8.

> I guess there is no ideal solution for this in Emacs.

Instead of using "(setq indent-tabs-mode t)" use "(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)". This will force emacs to always use spaces to indent.

Jeff

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