No tabs in post PLEASE!!! (was Re: partial list sort)
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Thu Oct 10 15:30:40 EDT 2002
>> (defun untab-buffer ()
>> (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))
>>
>> (add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'untab-buffer)
François> It happens, sometimes, that you ought to preserve TABs. For
François> example, when you are sending diffs. So the rule should not
François> be burned too deep in your outgoing mailer.
I've not been burned yet. I was burned much more frequently by pasting a
bit of code into a mail message, then using C-u C-x C-i (indent-rigidly) to
indent the code with respect to the surrounding block of text by four
spaces. I generally only submit diffs places using bug/patch systems like
SourceForge.
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