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Emacs code to automatically set indent-tabs-mode according to existing code
When I’m editing old files in a group where other people may work on them tomorrow or ten years from now, I like to adopt the file’s existing tab or space indentation scheme for my additions/changes – that’s just being polite, but it’s currently something of a hassle. Does anyone have a way for emacs to look for the current indentation scheme in the file or at least the neighboring lines and use that for Tab indentation?
The following sound promising:
A comparison/review would be interesting.