On 10/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Milne</b> <<a href="mailto:james.milne@mac.com">james.milne@mac.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>I am working a lot with source code written using Emacs on Linux. The<br>prevailing convention is that tabs are presented as 8 spaces, but<br>indents are only 4 spaces. Indenting will insert spaces, and Emacs
<br>seems to swap groups of 8 spaces for a tab.<br>Is there any way to do this with TextMate at the moment?</blockquote><div><br>Not mentioned so far is that you're probably best off setting tabsize to 8, converting all tabs to spaces, and then switching back to 4-space soft-tabs.
<br><br>I have seen that type of tab encoding before as well, but any emacs hacker worth her salt [1] uses "(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)".<br><br>/Nick<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html">
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html</a><br></div><br><br></div>