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I am using js2-mode to edit Javascript in Emacs, but I can't seem to get it to stop using tabs instead of spaces for indentation. My other modes work fine, just having issues w/ js2.

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Do you have

(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

in your .emacs? It works fine for me in emacs 23.0.60.1 when I do that. js2-mode uses the standard emacs function indent-to, which respects indent-tabs-mode, to do its indenting.

Peter S. Housel
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The above solution only works if you want to use spaces for all modes. I need to use tabs to space my python files and spaces for javascript. Is there a way to modify the js2-mode's use of indent-to such that js2-mode uses spaces for indentation?

Then don't set indent-tabs-mode via setq-default in all modes but via setq in a mode-specific hook.
Jouni K. Seppänen