Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Chad Brown<yandros@mit.edu> wrote:
>> 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
>
>

In the interests of not slandering Emacs excessively, I'd like to
state that I seem to have figured out my .emacs file to a point where
hitting a tab inserts a tab. That will be all.

John
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