Re: death to tabs

[Roy Smith]

Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

> 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)
> 
> I think to set this globally, you actually want 
> 
>     (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
> 
> in your ~/.emacs, since indent-tabs-mode is one of those variables
> which becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.

I've had trouble getting the global default value to not be over-ridden 
locally in each buffer.  What I do now is set it in my C mode hook:

(add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'my-c-mode-hook t)
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'my-c-mode-hook t)
(defun my-c-mode-hook ()
  (c-set-style "linux")
  (line-number-mode 1)
  (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
  (setq c-basic-offset 4))

I'm not sure if this is the "right" way to do it, but it seems to do 
what I want, so I'm happy.