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RE: replace tab stops with spaces
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Bingham, Jay |
Subject: |
RE: replace tab stops with spaces |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:25:37 -0500 |
The suggested approach may produce undesirable results, such as when a tab
takes less than a fixed number of spaces, which is the reason for existence of
tab characters.
Instead try the M-x untabify command at the start of the buffer
untabify is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `tabify'.
(untabify START END)
Convert all tabs in region to multiple spaces, preserving columns.
Called non-interactively, the region is specified by arguments
START and END, rather than by the position of point and mark.
The variable `tab-width' controls the spacing of tab stops.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Dziulko [mailto:dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:04 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: replace tab stops with spaces
With the cursor at the beginning of the file, type M-x replace string.
At the "Replace string:" prompt, hit tab key then enter.
At the "Replace string with:" prompt hit 4 spaces then enter.
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Roland Reichenberg wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> in our small development team nearly everybody uses a different editor
> to work on our sources. And not every editor is configured to use blank
> spaces instead of tab stops. So our sources contain both real tab stops
> and blank spaces.
>
> This bothers me while editing buffers. Is there an easy-to-use command
> which converts all tab stops into 4 blank spaces?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roland
>
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