[Tutor] emacs and tabs/spaces

[Ben Finney]

"André Walker-Loud <walksloud at gmail.com>" <walksloud at gmail.com> writes:

> In this case, the “tab” alignment does not make it an integer number
> of 4 spaces - so when I try and edit the file on a different machine,
> with another editor (TextWrangler) that does actually put all tabs to
> 4 spaces, I end up breaking my files often.

This is an excellent reason to stop using U+0009 (HT) characters for
indentation at all.

Instead, set ‘indent-tabs-mode’ to false (‘nil’), and Emacs will indent
with the specified number of U+0020 (SPACE) characters. You won't be at
the mercy of the chaotic differences in rendering of U+0009 characters.

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Ben Finney