wayne@ultra.UUCP (Wayne Hathaway) (06/04/87)
Sorry to bother both Emacs lists with this, but it can't be
as hard a problem as it seems to ... All I'm trying to do
is produce a C program that can be run through vgrind with
reasonable-looking output. Unfortunately, my experiments
with 'tabify' and 'edit-tab-stops' and the like have been
total disasters so far, and I have had zero luck making
things line up for vgrind.
I am sure it is because of my total lack of understanding
of tabs in Emacs, because things like the following continue
to puzzle me:
I create a program file, with tab stops every 4 spaces.
(Verified by 'describe-variable tab-stop-list'.) There
really seem to be tabs, since the cursor jumps on C-f.
I save the file and grep for tabs; sure enough, there
they are.
I 'untabify' the entire program, and the tabs seem to go
away (cursor moves smoothly).
I save the file again, grep for tabs, and -- oops, still
got tabs!
A second "experiment":
I set tabs every 4 spaces over to column 40, and none
after that. I 'tabify' the region, and -- again oops,
there are still tabs being used past column 40.
In my weak little voice, I cry "Help?".
Seriously, thanx muchly to anybody who can point me to the
right documentation, mode, oracle, ... And by the way, I
am using GNU Emacs 18.44 on a diskless Sun 3/50. Thanx!
Wayne Hathaway ultra!wayne@ames.arpa
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