Re: TAB

[Dan Anderson]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:31, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> David Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> > When I edit java-files, most of the times emacs inserts spaces when I 
> > press TAB to indent something. But sometimes I've found it inserts a TAB 
> > character instead. Why?
> 
> 
> C-h v indent-tabs-mode
> 
> > How can I turn it off? I never want TAB 
> > characters when editing Java or C++ source code files.
> 
> (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)   ; for all modes, or
> 
> (add-hook 'java-mode-hook             ; for just java mode
>         (lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))

That tells him how to turn of tabs.  Is there any way to change tabs to
spaces?  i.e. when tabbing insert 4 spaces instead of a tab (if tabs
default to 4 spaces long)?

-Dan