Comments on: How To Disable Ident-Tabs-Mode

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:16:10 +0000

Hi Cecil,

If you want a single tab character, use C-q . 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

Cecil — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:16:09 +0000

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

Jared — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:40:10 +0000

Thanks for the tip Ron. I’ve updated the post.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:02:03 +0000

(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) in .emacs ?

Works for me.