emacs with python mode

[Michael Hudson]

"Gerhard W. Gruber" <g.gruber at xsoft.co.at> writes:

[snip font coloring problems]

Have you tried global-font-lock? (Mind you I use GNU emacs on linux).

> How can I force emacs to expand all
> leading blanks to the according number of tabs or vice versa. I don't
> care wether I have tabs or blanks but I need to have the proper
> indention,

C-x h (select all)
M-x untabify (replaces tabs with an appropriate number of spaces)

> as you probably know this is a required part of the python
> syntax.

Umm, yes.

HTH,
Michael