On 9 Nov 2006, at 14:37, Nick Sieger wrote:
On 10/27/06, James Milne james.milne@mac.com wrote: Hello,
I am working a lot with source code written using Emacs on Linux. The prevailing convention is that tabs are presented as 8 spaces, but indents are only 4 spaces. Indenting will insert spaces, and Emacs seems to swap groups of 8 spaces for a tab. Is there any way to do this with TextMate at the moment?
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.
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)".
Sadly I'm going to get short shrift informing my emacs hackers that they have to change their coding style just to suit my choice of editor :-)
Also, I don't want to change the whitespace in these files, as it means I'm touching every line in the source file. This makes my diff more complicated when I check back into CVS. When someone else has to resolve conflicts with their merges they would find I had changed every single line in the file, most of which is just replacing tabs with spaces. Again, not going to be very popular :-)
It's the only usability niggle I have with TextMate. I keep learning more funky keyboard shortcuts every day which make it a great environment otherwise!
-- Kind regards, James Milne