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Re: Indentation settings problems
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John A Pershing Jr |
Subject: |
Re: Indentation settings problems |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:57:58 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) |
TriKri <kristoferkrus@hotmail.com> writes:
> I have a question about another indentation setting: When you set
> indent-tabs-mode to t, multiple spaces are replaced with tabs. But what
> if you only want the part of the indentation that comes from the
> c-basic-offset to be tabs, and the rest spaces? [...]
You are out of luck. Tabs are, in general, not portable from one
person's editor/IDE to another's, because nobody can seem to agree on
the primordial truth -- which is: TABS ARE EVERY 8 COLUMNS!
If you want code formatting to be portable across editors, users, and
IDEs, you need to turn tabs off.
-jp