RE: indent doesn't remove tabs

[Kelly F. H. <kf...@mq...>]

You can untabify a region with the untabify command (M-Xuntabify).....

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Kelly F. Hickel
Senior Software Architect
MQSoftware, Inc
952.345.8677
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Luke [mailto:se...@cs...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:37 PM
> To: bug...@gn...
> Subject: indent doesn't remove tabs
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> I humbly apologize if this is a FAQ, though my cursory glance
suggested
> it was not.
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> I am trying to use indent-region to auto-indent a fair chunk (30K
> lines) of Java code in various files.  This code was created using a
> variety of tools, some of which used spaces for indentation, some used
> tabs.  When emacs indents the code it _retains_ the tabs; as a result
> some lines are indented with tabs, and some with spaces.  On a number
> of IDEs this comes out looking horrific.
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> As I was writing a short auto-indenter in my Makefile (which I include
> at the end) I had hoped that if I did (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) this
> would prevent this behavior.  Alas, it does not.  If emacs thinks the
> line is already indented correctly, it does not replace the tabs with
> spaces.  It only replaces them if it needs to _reindent_ the line.
> This behavior to me seems significantly broken.
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> How would one tell emacs, in a simple way, to always use spaces
instead
> of tabs when indenting, and even go to the trouble of replacing
leading
> whitespace with tabs, short of writing my own C hook?  (I want people
> to be able to use their own brace style).
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> Sean Luke
> George Mason University
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> The Makefile autoindenter...
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> indent:
>          touch ${HOME}/.emacs
>          find . -name "*.java" -print -exec emacs --batch --load
> ~/.emacs --eval=3D'(progn (find-file "{}") (mark-whole-buffer) (setq
> indent-tabs-mode nil) (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil)
> (save-buffer))' \;
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> ugly and slow, but it works!
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