Comments on: How To Disable Indent-Tabs-Mode http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/ Leveraging Perl and Emacs Tue, 07 May 2013 11:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris Lacher http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-9285 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:19:15 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-9285 The set-hook idea helped me, ’cause I want to keep tabs as default but eliminate them in C/C++/Java code:

;; set the buffer-local variable indent-tabs-mode to nil, in C and C++
(add-hook ‘c-mode-common-hook (lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))

]]> By: Benno http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-8908 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:59:59 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-8908 FWIW setq-default did not work for me (emacs on windows). set-default usually works fine on all my UNIX emacses.

]]> By: dexter http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-8760 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:54:06 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-8760 Thanks
It works
just what I need
But when I press a ,it goes right few space blocks
then I press
I hope emacs will delete the whole tab block,not just delete one space by one .

I like this behavior, really, in VIM
Can anybody tell how to do it with .emacs?

]]> By: Cecil http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7832 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:55:56 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7832 Hello Jared:
I don’t know where were my manners! I came back to your post via a google search today. I don’t know why I didn’t reply to your suggestion, but thanks, it works, and all the best for the new year!

]]> By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7660 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:16:10 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7660 Hi Cecil,

If you want a single tab character, use C-q <TAB>. If you want to re-enable it for new buffers, put (setq-default indent-tabs-mode t) in the *scratch* buffer and the do C-x C-e to execute it. Or you could use M-x eval-expression instead. Let me know if that works for you.

]]> By: Cecil http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7653 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:16:09 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7653 Any idea how to re-enable tabs from within emacs. I have (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) in my .emacs which is fine 98% of the time, but sometimes I actually need tabs which means quiting emacs, commenting out the line in my .emacs, editing the file, the uncommenting it in my .emacs when I’m done. Is there any way to temporarily disable it while within emacs? So far I’ve had no luck finding an answer with google.
Thanks.

]]> By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7206 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:40:10 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7206 Thanks for the tip Ron. I’ve updated the post.

]]> By: Ron http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7205 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:02:03 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/how-to-disable-ident-tabs-mode/#comment-7205 (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) in .emacs ?

Works for me.

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