Good Haskell Style

[Thomas Schilling]

On 2 aug 2007, at 09.50, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Is there an emacs mode or Lisp-blob that lets you use TAB to go to  
> the next n-col boundary, but expands the jump into spaces.
>
> In emacs modes, TAB usually does all sorts of other snazzy things  
> concerning layout, which I don't want.  I just want something that  
> behaves like old-fashioned TAB, but generates a file with spaces.

This should work:

;; tabs are evil, always use spaces instead
(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)

;; in your haskell-mode-hook:
   (define-key haskell-mode-map [tab] 'indent-for-tab-command)


Regards,
/ Thomas