Re: indent-tabs-mode

Hello Piscium,

Thank you for your feedback, can you be more specific about the way you =
perform copy + paste?

What is your environment? how do you run qemacs and what kind of keys do =
you use to perform copy + paste?

qemacs does not convert tabs to spaces when copying with kill / yank =
commands.

When using the OS clipboard, things get more messy:=20

For example: when I run qemacs in the macOS iTerm2 terminal, and if I =
copy using the mac clipboard and paste
into the qemacs terminal window with a mac paste shortcut (or right menu =
option), tabs are taken as commands=20
and expand to spaces depending on the settings for the current window.

Regarding other editors, it is not uncommon for the editor to reformat =
the block when pasting into C or similar mode buffers.
qemacs does not do this and it is rather easy to hit Ctrl-Alt-\ to =
reindent the yanked block that is marked by default, assuming a yank
command was used.

I would like to improve qemacs integration with X-windows and other =
window managers, this is one of the many issues in this area.

As a quick fix for your current issue, you can add a .qerc file =
somewhere in the file hierarchy with this line: indent_tabs_mode =3D 1;

.qerc files are searched and parsed from the root directory down the =
directory tree leading to the file upon loading a file to set up projet =
wide settings.
I agree I should document these configuration options

Regarding the default for indent_tabs_mode as 0 except for Makefiles, =
let=E2=80=99s not start a war, but it has been my default for the last =
20 years,
after 20 years of advocating the use of TABs in source files, my =
personal take on hindsight 20/20 :)

Ciao!

Chqrlie.

> On 9 Aug 2022, at 09:48, Piscium <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I did a copy and paste, saved the file, and diff unexpectedly showed a
> difference. It turns out that qemacs by default converts tabs to
> spaces. I have used a number of text editors over the years, I think
> this is the first where it is set by default. Neither mg nor emacs do
> that, for example.
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> I looked in the source code and found two ways of enabling the mode =
using M-x:
> - with command set-indent-tabs-mode
> - with command set-variable, passing as parameter indent-tabs-mode
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> So far so good, however I don't want to be doing this every time, so I
> tried to put that in the configuration file but I could not make it
> work. It seems that indent-tabs-mode is a window variable instead of a
> global variable. Would that be the reason why it cannot be configured
> in the config file? Or is there something else I am missing?
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> In a nutshell, what I am looking for is a way to enable the tabs mode
> in the configuration file. I am running the latest version in github.
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