From: YANAGAWA Kazuhisa <kjana@...4lab.to>
Date: 2004-02-24T21:40:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Appropriate use of camelCase (Tabbing in emacs)

In Message-Id: <20040224111638.GA23593@freeze.org>
Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

> Speaking of tabs, I have a colleague that uses emacs. Using 
> ruby-mode.el, <tabbing> indents two spaces, unless he tabs
> 4 times. Then the 8 spaces are converted to a hard tab. 
> 
> Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Particularly, is
> there a way for ruby-mode.el to do this so he does not have to 
> permanently change his tab setting in emacs.

Add the following to your colleague's .emacs:

    (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
              #'(lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))

Or just

    (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

for any language modes.


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kjana@dm4lab.to                                February 24, 2004
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