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How do I find a tab character in emacs?
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To manually insert a tab in Emacs, use ctrl-Q TAB. control-Q causes the next key to be inserted rather than interpreted as a possible command.
The tab character can be inserted by holding the Alt and pressing 0 and 9 together.
This is because standard tabs are set to eight spaces. Tabs are special characters.
To replace tabs with the appropriate number of spaces, use M-x untabify . To do the reverse and convert multiple spaces to tabs, you can use M-x tabify . Both commands work on a region. To run on the whole buffer use a prefix argument (i.e. C-u M-x untabify ).
C-s C-q <TAB> C-s starts an incremental search, and then C-q runs quoted-insert, which inserts the next character you type literally. Then, pressing the TAB key will insert a tab character. Continue hitting C-s to go to the next tab character.
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