Re: OT - trivial programming language

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Steve Lamb:
> Faheem Mitha wrote:
> > Bob Proulx makes good points elsewhere in this thread. Whether you
> > like the indentation as syntax feature is really a matter of
> > taste. Personally, I am ambivalent about it. On the one hand it makes
> 
>     So have EMACS treat the tab key as the equivolent number of spaces and
> write the file out using spaces instead of tabs.  I'd tell you how but I'm a
> vim user and that is how vim handles it.

fwiw:

  <CTRL>-x h                    # mark entire buffer

  <ESC>-x untabify              # convert tabs to equivalent no. of spaces

And you can stuff (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) into your
startup file so the TAB key inserts the equivalent number of spaces
instead of TAB characters.


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