hi Larry,
in (x)emacs you would just hook (untabify (point-min) (point-max)) after (set-variable 'tab-width 8) on c-mode-common, or type ``M-x untabify'' on a selected buffer. There is expand as well, on any unix.
Btw, I happen to prefer the `legacy' way...
Krzysztof
Larry Troxler (by way of Larry Troxler ) wrote: ...
But honestly, it would motivate me greatly to do a complete and thorough job, if someone would send me some pointers or URLs on how to deal with this hard-tab issue. It seems that the source I got from CVS has actual hard tabs in it, and so far I don't see anything in the CVS docs on how to bypass that so I get a clean copy, nor any mention anywhere in the source files of what the spacing that these hard tabs represent. I truly wish people would stop using these retarded things, but since they still insist, I need advice on how to deal with these "legacy" files.