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	(back to ProgrammingNotes) Emacs is more than an editor - it's a lifestyle. I spent years using vi but have fairly recently started to make the investment to join the cult. I prefer emacs to IDE's because I feel that the investment in time that I spend learning it will be more likely to pay off because emacs has been around for a long time and will continue to be around for a long time. Also, more of the smartest people I've worked with have used emacs than all other development environments combined (although lately Eclipse is gaining). C style - p.322 `M-x c-set-style` `GNU\|K&R\|BSD\|Stroustrup\|Whitesmith\|Ellemtel` Vovida code appears to use `Stroustrup`.
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< <	Tabs - to replace tabs with spaces mark a region then `M-x untabify`.
> >	Tabs - to replace tabs with spaces mark a region then `M-x untabify` (`M-x tabify` goes the other way). Useful variables related to tabs are `indent-tabs-mode` - `t` for spaces, `nil` for tabs `tab-width` - number of spaces per tab `c-tab-always-indent` - if `t`, will always indent a line of code. if `nil`, will indent only if you hit the tab key at the beginning of the line.
	Ant - to use ant instead of make to compile programs inside emacs, you'll want to run ant with the `-emacs` flag which makes the output more plain but allows emacs to find error messages. The easy way to do this is to add `(custom-set-variables '(compile-command "ant -emacs"))` to your .emacs file.