Re: emacs question

<snip helpful intro which I'd like to think I already knew, at least
mostly ;) >

> > (setq indent-tab-mode nil))
> ... Finally, as far as
> suppressing use of tabs to do logical indentation, you've almost got
> it right, but the variable is named "indent-tabs-mode".

sheesh, that's it! I was going around in lots of tiny little
circles... :(

> Also, if you want to have different conventions for different
> projects, setting a c++-mode-hook is probably not the way to go; that
> will get run *any* time you visit a c++ file. I'd suggest a trick
> that someone (Peter E. I think) recently pointed out to me: you can
> pattern-match on the location of a source file in an auto-mode-alist
> pattern. So I've now got this in my .emacs:

Great. I had just been thinking about this, and now I don't have to
figure it out :))

Thanks.

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California