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Re: Weird Tabbing Effects
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: Weird Tabbing Effects |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:49:21 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>> Is there any way I can fix these files so that they're viewable in
>> other editors? Also, what caused this problem?
>
> Just make sure that all programmes use the same tab width! This value
> can be set on mechanical typewriter machines as well as in
> applications. Well, there is also a side-effect with fonts:
> proportional fonts can make problems.
Additionally, emacs by default indents with tabs and spaces. A tab is 8
chars wide, and if a line should be indented by 10 chars, vanilla emacs
will insert one tab ant two spaces.
Most editors use only tabs or only spaces, and when the tab-width isn't
8 the files you wrote in emacs look weired.
One way to get along with that is to open the files with emacs and do
M-x customize-option RET indent-tabs-mode
and set it to off (nil). Then save the files again, and all tabs will
be converted to spaces.
I prefer indenting with spaces, but others milages may vary.
HTH,
Tassilo
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