Ok, just worked out part of the problem, which as it turns out is not a problem when I searched the mailing lists.
I found part of my answer here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-indent/2007-05/msg00015.html 1) state the version of indent you are using. GNU indent 2.2.10 2) State on which platform you are running. On Ubuntu 10.10, uname returns: 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:45:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux 3) Exactly which command options you used. --use-tabs \ --tab-size 4 \ --indent-level 4 \ --start-left-side-of-comments \ --leave-preprocessor-space I still get spaces in front of some if keywords instead of tabs. Thanks again for your help, Joe R. Nassimian P.S. I use to think tabs are bad for indenting, but turns out I was wrong. Imagine you are working in a team with each developer having a different preference. I prefer tabs to be sized to 4 spaces, others in the team I work prefer 2 or 8. Using tabs allows me to adjust the spacing size in my editor, without imposing it on others. On top of that, you use one character instead of 4 or 2 when you use tabs. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Joe R. Nassimian < [email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to format a program's source code with GNU Indent, and I would > like to have it indented using the GNU style, except for the spaces. > > I am using --use-tabs (which according to the documentation is on by > default) but indentation is still done using 2 spaces. > > How can I tell indent to use tabs instead of spaces for indentation? > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > Joe R. Nassimian > _______________________________________________ bug-indent mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-indent
