Omar Polo <o...@omarpolo.com> wrote: > Sam Lee <samlee...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > In the mg text editor, how do I indent using spaces instead of tabs? > > If I enable auto-indent-mode, mg uses tabs to indent. Is there > > something like Vim and nvi's 'expandtab' option that makes mg indent > > using spaces instead of tabs? > > there isn't an `expandtab' for mg. > > there is some code in mg to handle that, but it's hidden under some > #ifdef NOTAB and probably not complete and maybe doesn't even compile.
actually, i was wrong. it's true that the relevant code is hidden under #ifdef NOTAB and not enabled by default, but it compiles fine and M-x no-tab-mode RET seems to work (as long as you don't want to change the width of the `expandtab'; it always align to the nearest multiple of 8)
