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Re: death to tabs


From: Bijan Soleymani
Subject: Re: death to tabs
Date: 04 Apr 2003 16:15:13 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:

> Ok, seriously, I don't ever want to see another tab as long as I
> live.  I want _every__ tab I ever wrote converted to spaces right
> now and I never want to have a tab show up when I hit the TAB key
> again.  All spaces all the time.  
> 
> I found 
>   (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
> 
> for future tab annihilation but how can I convert a doc with tabs in
> it to just spaces.  Thanks for the help.
> 
> John
> 
> PS sorry for the brusque tone.  Its just one of those last straw things.

M-x untabify convert all tabs in region to multiple spaces.

So select the entire document, and then run untabify.

Bijan


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