RE: Displaying tabs

[Deephanphongs, David]

Three ways:


simplist way - turn off c-mode:
ESC x text-mode


Medium way - rebind [TAB]:
ESC x global-set-key 
TAB
tab-to-tab-stop


hard way - turn off c-mode's indentation - I have no idea how
to do that completely..

I suspect that you'll have to do this every time you start emacs -
possibly even for every c-file that you open.
If you want to avoid that, you'll have to do more stuff:
For solution 1, remove .c, .cc, .cpp, .h, from the auto-mode-alist
variable.
For solution 2, add 
(local-set-key '[tab] 'tab-to-tab-stop)
to your c-mode-hook..

 
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy M. Schaeffer [mailto:tim@bsilabs.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:00 AM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Displaying tabs
> 
<snip>

> Is there a way to have tabs always displayed as tab-width 
> spaces? I want
> tabs to be displayed  as indentation, always the same size, 
> no matter where
> on a line it starts.  Do I have to modify the sources to do this?
>