Background:
I’m primarily a Javascript developer. Espresso mode rocks.
I work on a team where other people touch my code (and I theirs). Different folks have different preferences for tab width. I like mine at four, a coworker likes his at two.
JSLint complains if you mix tabs and spaces (yes, I realize you can turn it off – but it helps keep me sane).
I’m staring at my buffer in whitespace-mode, and can clearly see that when I newline and tab, it inserts a bunch of tabs and then.. four spaces.
How can I prevent this behavior? The only whitespace before the first visible character of a line should be tabs…
You need to adjust a couple settings in your emacs configuration.
You may also need to adjust the indentation offset in your javascript mode so that each indent is a multiple of your tab width (for C-based modes it’s called
c-basic-offset).