Using tabs alone for indentation in Emacs
emacs, ide, indentation
Solution
smart tabs would insert tabs and spaces contextually.
Personally I only use spaces for both indentation and alignment (at least for my own projects). Here is another article on emacswiki I found very useful about the topic
Problem
I love Emacs but don't like how it does indentation: either an uncontrollable mix of tabs-and-spaces or just spaces (`(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)`). I want Emacs to do do indentation: With tabs alone. Do the indentation to a fixed number of places (not 6 sometimes, 8 other times and 4 in some other places). Be able to set one level of indentation as being equal to 4 (or 2) spaces. If I change the value of the tab stop, all newly-opened or reloaded files should use the new value (or can this change be affected only by re-starting Emacs?) Is all of the above possible? Some settings in `.emacs` or a package? Most IDEs (e.g. Eclipse) offer the above.