Thanx to Achim and Ken for their responses, but especially to an off-list responder (who may prefer to remain anonymous), who told me specifically how to disable these (unwanted) features. In case this is useful to anyone:
To cause auto-indenting to use spaces instead of tabs: (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) To disable automatic indentation: (electric-indent-mode 0) <opine>I would think one would have to opt-in for these features--not opt-out--but that's just me.</opine> --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple