You'll be happy to know I have enabled the following from http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html for all C/C++ files
[quote] To cause TAB characters to not be used in the file for compression, and for only spaces to be used, do this:
(setq indent-tabs-mode nil) [/quote]
And I still only have to press the TAB-key so everyone can be happy.
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