From: Michael Witten Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:51:55 GMT Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1192548367.3821.4.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu> On 16 Oct 2007, at 11:26:07 AM, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: > Instead of using "(setq indent-tabs-mode t)" use "(setq indent-tabs- > mode > nil)". This will force emacs to always use spaces to indent. That's part of the problem to begin with: people are using both way of indentation. I suggest this not be allowed, or that it be the only way of indenting. However, 8 spaces per tab is a lot of wasted information to be bandying about. Michael Witten