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I have had an indent-buffer command like this for some time, which formats the whole current buffer. I used it for java, c++, css, html, xml and lisp.

(defun indent-buffer ()
    "Indent the current buffer"
    (interactive)
    (save-excursion (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil))
)

I found the above function at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ReformatBuffer

Recently I noticed that it was leaving tabs in (which I hate) and trailing spaces.  It was simply just indenting the buffer.

After some more searching today I found the untabify command and I created the following commands.  Mainly because I expected the command to be called something like tab-???

(defun untabify-buffer ()
    "Untabify current buffer"
    (interactive)
    (save-excursion (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))
)

(defun tab-to-spaces ()
    "Convert tab to spaces"
    (interactive)
    (save-excursion (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))
)

I then found this page, http://emacsblog.org/2007/01/17/indent-whole-buffer/ which has the best indent/format buffer function.

(defun indent-buffer-2 ()
    "Indent the buffer 2"
    (interactive)
    (save-excursion
        (delete-trailing-whitespace)
        (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil)
        (untabify (point-min) (point-max))
    )
)

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