Re: whitespace-cleanup + untabify?

[Kevin Rodgers]

dsevilla@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm a no tab person. I would like my whitespace-cleanup command to
> also perform an untabify. How can this be done? I haven't found any
> option that connects untabify and whitespace-cleanup. I'm using:
>
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
>
> I would really appreciate the help.

It's not documented, but because whitespace-global-mode is defined
via define-minor-mode there should be whitespace-global-mode-hook.
So perhaps something like this will work:

(add-hook 'whitespace-global-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (when whitespace-global-mode
              (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))))

Alternatively, you could hook directly into find-file-hook,
write-file-functions, and kill-buffer-hook just like
whitespace-global-mode does.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA