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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Subject: Re: [Babel] Preserving tabs in code blocks
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:14:44 -0400
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Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>
>> I want to include the contents of a file which requires TABS between
>> fields in a #+begin_src ... #+end_src block.
>> 
>> When I use C-c ' to edit the block the TABS are all converted back to
>> spaces.  I want to be able to tangle the file and preserve the TABS
>> which are required as input to some tool chain.
>> 
>> Is there some mode I can use to preserve the TABS?

> Try setting org-src-preserve-indentation to t. If you change the default
> value of indent-tabs-mode to nil (as I do), then you might have problems
> in any case: inserted tabs will be changed to spaces. But if you have it
> left at the default t, then I think this works.

Thanks Nick!

That works great :)

Regards,
Bernt