date: May 6, 2011 author(s): Julien Palard

replace tabs with spaces

When you want to replace tab with spaces or vice versa don’t use M-% (query-replace) but M-x tabify or M-x untabify. They work on the current selection so if you want it to be applied to a whole buffer, try C-x h (mark-whole-buffer) before to select the whole buffer.