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From: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:58:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <076872D5-BC44-4608-B806-CCFEEA01E8FA@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530220907151207p34a25bfatad228cef86ddd56e@mail.gmail.com>

> Emacs is great for writing Lisp. Now, if only I could find the correct
> .emacs invocation to make the tab key insert a tab character in C
> mode, rather than a bunch of spaces the way His Holy Lunacy RMS
> desires. If I wanted spaces instead of tabs, I'd type them!

OT for the list, but this is trivial in emacs for several years now,
and RMS has nothing to do with the special code for C mode (which is
called CC-mode, and supports a bevy of languages, and is complicated
enough that it can probably boot minix on it's own by now).

*Chad



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-15 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-15  1:58 Jason Catena
2009-07-15  4:36 ` Rob Pike
2009-07-15  5:02   ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 13:11   ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-16  9:58   ` cej
2009-07-16 10:41     ` mattmobile
2009-07-16 12:11     ` michael block
2009-07-16 12:29       ` cej
2009-07-15  9:25 ` Paul Donnelly
2009-07-15 12:22   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 15:32     ` cej
2009-07-15 15:44       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 17:00         ` John Floren
2009-07-15 18:24           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-15 18:26           ` Steve Simon
2009-07-15 18:59             ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 19:07               ` John Floren
2009-07-15 19:27                 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 20:58                 ` Chad Brown [this message]
2009-07-15 21:07                   ` John Floren
2009-07-15 19:54               ` Jason Catena
2009-07-15 19:59                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-15 20:05                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-15 20:14                   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-15 20:29                     ` Jason Catena
2009-07-15 20:42                       ` Noah Evans
2009-07-15 20:51                         ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 21:27                           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 23:31                             ` Jason Catena
2009-07-15 21:07                         ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 21:12                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-15 21:32                             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 20:41                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-07-15 21:00     ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-07-15 21:14       ` David Leimbach
2009-07-16  8:51     ` Paul Donnelly

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