Re: whitespace-cleanup + untabify?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I have never used whitespace-cleanup (I use delete-trailing-whitespace),
> > > >   but from the doc of this function it looks like it also untabifies if
> > > > `indent-tabs-mode' is nil. Does not that work?
> > > Yes, that's what I thought, but was not the case, as if I applied
> > > whitespace-cleanup and then untabify, the file was modified (that is,
> > > it still converted *some* tabs to spaces), so I assumed it didn't work
> > > this way. I had indent-tabs-mode set to nil also.
> > In that case it looks like a bug to me. Could you please send a bug report
>
> > From the documentation it appears to me that it will transform 8
> spaces to tabs, but not vice-versa.  So I don't think it's necessarily a
> bug.  But I do think it would be a good feature to add.

You might be right about the doc, I don't understand it ;-)

It looks like a simple alternative that is equivalent to untabify + 
delete-trailing-whitespace indeed is a good feature to add.