Re: OT - trivial programming language
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:41:55PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> 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.
>
And I don't remember the syntax, but you can get vim to use tabs
instead of spaces also.
> 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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