TABs (was: Waffling between Python and Ruby)

[David Bolen]

hzhu at knowledgetrack.com (Huaiyu Zhu) writes:

> OK, so I agree that the (setq-default tab-width 4) in my .emacs is evil (it
> sits there since way back when I copied my first .emacs from somebody else),
> I'm wondering what's the easiest way to revert this on multiple files,
> either within or without emacs.  If I'm going to change my default emacs
> behavior I want to do this on all the files, and safely.

One fairly simple way is to untabify your file, change the tab width,
and then if you want re-tabify.  Emacs will use a mixture of TABs
(using the new tab width definition) and spaces to achieve the same
spacing you already have.

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