Re: Untabify...?

[Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> Rather, please make it off by default so as not to seriously break things
> that have been known to work.

I agree it should be off by default, or should not even be an option.

However, message mode should turn off indent-tabs-mode, so the user is
less likely to accidentally add tabs to the message (which will most
likely be displayed wrong on other newsreaders).  Explictly inserted
tabs (with C-q TAB), and tabs in included files, will (and should)
still be there.

Here is a patch for both.

1999-02-17  Per Abrahamsen  <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>

	* message.el (message-send-mail): Don't untabify.
	(message-mode): Don't use tabs for indentation.

cd ~/emacs/pgnus-0.76/lisp/
diff -c message-old.el message.el
*** message-old.el	Thu Feb 11 06:02:23 1999
--- message.el	Wed Feb 17 12:06:25 1999
***************
*** 1444,1449 ****
--- 1444,1451 ----
  	(concat "[ \t]*[-a-z0-9A-Z]*>+[ \t]*\\|"
  		adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp))
    (mm-enable-multibyte)
+   (make-local-variable 'indent-tabs-mode) ;Turn off tabs for indentation.
+   (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
    (run-hooks 'text-mode-hook 'message-mode-hook))
  
  \f
***************
*** 2093,2099 ****
        (let ((message-deletable-headers
  	     (if news nil message-deletable-headers)))
  	(message-generate-headers message-required-mail-headers))
-       (untabify (point-min) (point-max))
        (let ((mail-parse-charset message-posting-charset))
  	(mail-encode-encoded-word-buffer))
        ;; Let the user do all of the above.
--- 2095,2100 ----

Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Feb 17 12:06:53