[lug] xemacs and indent-tabs-mode

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Thu Apr 5 16:45:13 MDT 2001


>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Young <ejy at techangle.com> writes:

Ed> According to the GNU Emacs manual v20, p189, this is a per buffer
Ed> variable, but you can set it up as a default variable.

Ed> 	(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)

 (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

Setting the variable automatically makes it buffer-local.
In buffers where it has not been set, the default value is used.
setq-default is how you set this default value.

Tom



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