[comp.emacs] Changing Tab/spaces in emacs

wags@cimage.com (Bill Wagner) (10/11/90)

I have a question regarding emacs:  How do I get it to fill blank spaces 
with TAB characters, rather than space characters.  

I do not want to lose the TABbing features of the C mode, but a different
key mapping may be useful.

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toad@CS.CMU.EDU (Todd Kaufmann) (10/13/90)

[Oops, I had a reading problem the first time and posted the opposite thing.]

   I have a question regarding emacs:  How do I get it to fill blank spaces 
   with TAB characters, rather than space characters.  

   I do not want to lose the TABbing features of the C mode, but a different
   key mapping may be useful.

Not a key mapping, just 

C-h v indent-tabs-mode:
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indent-tabs-mode's value is t

Documentation:
*Indentation can insert tabs if this is non-nil.
Setting this variable automatically makes it local to the current buffer.


So put

(setq indent-tabs-mode t)

in your .emacs if you like.


If you want it only in c-mode, for example:

(setq c-mode-hook '(lambda ()(setq indent-tabs-mode t)))


and any other -mode-hooks, as appropriate.


 -todd