GNU Emacs: Do not use tab character, use spaces! « Dimitar Panayotov shares experience

GNU Emacs: Do not use tab character, use spaces!

Posted by Dimitar Panayotov on 29 November 2006, 2:25

Put this in your “.emacs” file:
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
If you want this setting to be per-file, use Emacs file-local variables like below. Remember: file-local Emacs variables MUST be in a comment section. It varies from language to language, you know.
-*- indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- -*- indent-tabs-mode: t -*-
The first means “only spaces, please”, and the second — “use tabs, please”.
The alternative way of specifying Emacs local variables is (again, this should be in a comment section):
Local variables: indent-tabs-mode: nil End:

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