Emacs auto-modes and tabs

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:21:48 EDT
bscott at ntisys.com said:

>  If it used tabs to do the aligning, I wouldn't mind so much.  But it uses
>spaces, and at non-standard tab stops!  Grrrr.  If I wanted spaces, I'd hit
>the bloody spacebar.  I want my [Tab] key to insert a TAB character, and I
>want my tab stops to be every eight columns, the way God intended for them
>to be.  :-)

Well, there are many, many diatribes against using tabs.  Why, I 
don't know, but there are :)  I think some of it might have to do 
with broken mail readers and proportionally spaced fonts, or 
something, but really, I have no idea.

On the other hand, you can always use the tab key, then mark the 
entire region and run M-x tabify on it.  A kludgy hack, but it should 
work just fine.

>> I'll bet you a beer though, the Kevin Clark is the first person with the
>> correct answer ;)
>
>  If it was Perl, I would have no doubt.  But for Emacs?  You're on.  ;-)

Okay.

Hey, Kev, where are you buddy, I've got a beer riding on you this time ;)
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