Re: [boost] Tabs creep back into source files

From: Anthony Williams (anthwil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-09 10:31:01

Douglas Gregor writes:
 > On Monday 09 September 2002 10:16 am, David Abrahams wrote:
 > > Emacs can do anything.
 > 
 > Actually, would anyone have a bit 'o' elisp to untabify a file when it's 
 > saved? That would make it rather impossible for Emacs users to add tabs to 
 > Boost sources :)

M-x customize-variable RET indent-tabs-mode RET
Set it to Off/nil
"Save for future sessions"

Now you can't add tabs when editing files.

If your emacs doesn't support customize, put 

(setq-default 'indent-tabs-mode nil)

in your .emacs file.

To remove tabs and save: M-< C-> M-x untabify RET C-x C-s

Alternatively, add the following to your .emacs file:

(defun untabify-and-save-buffer ()
  (interactive)
  (untabify 1 (buffer-size))
  (save-buffer))

(define-key global-map [(control x) (control s)] 'untabify-and-save-buffer)

If you don't use XEmacs, you might need to change the "define-key" call to
something else.

HTH

Anthony