Hi,

At Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:40:22 +0900,
YANAGAWA Kazuhisa wrote in [ruby-talk:93555]:
> > Speaking of tabs, I have a colleague that uses emacs. Using 
> > ruby-mode.el, <tabbing> indents two spaces, unless he tabs
> > 4 times. Then the 8 spaces are converted to a hard tab. 
> > 
> > Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Particularly, is
> > there a way for ruby-mode.el to do this so he does not have to 
> > permanently change his tab setting in emacs.
> 
> Add the following to your colleague's .emacs:
> 
>     (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
>               #'(lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)))

Since 2003/02/17, ruby-indent-tabs-mode is used for that
purpose, and defaulted to nil.

-- 
Nobu Nakada