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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TAB character in source code blocks
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:15:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3smbzz5.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C88F494.1080509@ccbr.umn.edu> (Erik Iverson's message of "Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:52:04 -0500")

Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using org source blocks to write a Makefile.
>
> #+begin_src makefile :tangle Makefile
> target: dependencies
> 	command
> #+end_src
>
> At least in GNU make, commands must start with a TAB.
>
> However, after I close the code edit buffer with C-c ',
> the resulting whitespace in the org-mode buffer, and thus
> the tangled Makefile, is spaces and not a tab.
>
> I haven't looked into what's causing this yet, wondering
> if anyone else has come across this already and found
> a solution?

Hi Erik,

(setq org-src-preserve-indentation t) should do it. It does have some
other effects so let us know if you have difficulty separating wanted
and unwanted effects.


Dan

>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
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2010-09-09 14:52 TAB character in source code blocks Erik Iverson
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