I’m modifying some existing code (PHP, uggh) that is not that well laid out. There is judicious use of both tabs and spaces. Indentation is a mess.
Emacs helpfully corrects all that automatically; which would be cool 99% of the time. In this case, all this automatic cleanup screws up the diffs for my version control. I need to keep my patches as clean as possible.
A temporary hack to work around this:
;; temporary hacks (defun delete-trailing-whitespace () (interactive)) (defun untabify (start end) (interactive)) (setq standard-indent 8) (setq-default indent-tabs-mode 1)
Redefining standard functions is a backwards way to solve this, and I’m sure there are variables somewhere that controls these settings, but I just couldn’t find them.