Use TABs and Smart-Tabs

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions

@@ -1466,13 +1466,24 @@ enabled).
   (add-hook 'before-save-hook #'whitespace-cleanup)
 #+end_src
 
-*** Don't use TABs
+*** USE TABs
 
-I was team TAB for a while, but I find them easier to avoid in Emacs.
-It manages my whitespace for me, anyway.
+I love TABs.  They're great.  I want to use them, dag nab it.  Emacs sometimes
+makes that harder than it should be, but let's start at the basics.
 
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb-ref settings
-  (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
+  (setq-default indent-tabs-mode t
+                tab-width 8)
+#+end_src
+
+**** Smart tabs                                                     :package:
+
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb-ref packages
+  (straight-use-package 'smart-tabs-mode)
+#+end_src
+
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb-ref modes
+  (smart-tabs-insinuate 'c 'c++ 'java 'javascript 'cperl 'python 'ruby 'nxml)
 #+end_src
 
 **** TODO smart-tabs-mode
@@ -1887,7 +1898,16 @@ Since aggressive indenting takes care of tabs, I can use =<TAB>= to complete
 things!
 
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb-ref settings
-  (setq-default tab-always-indent 'complete)
+  (setq-default tab-always-indent nil)
+#+end_src
+
+*** Reformatter                                                     :package:
+
+Steve Purcell's automatic reformatting tool.
+
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb-ref packages
+  (straight-use-package 'reformatter)
+  (require 'reformatter)
 #+end_src
 
 ** Typesetting