Emacs auto-modes and tabs

[Erik Price]

On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 04:12  PM, pll at lanminds.com wrote:

>> Is there some way to globally tell Emacs to leave my freaking
>> [Tab] key alone, while leaving everything else working the way it is?
>
> Hmmm, I have no idea.  I've never wanted to actually override the
> contextual definition of the [TAB] key.  I rather like having it line
> everything up in perl/shell/C mode, etc.

I like it too but I wish it would use spaces instead of tabs.  There 
must be a way to set this, nearly every editor/IDE offers it.


Erik