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Re: emacs related



"Michael P. Soulier" <michael.soulier@home.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > 
> > Or you can:
> > 
> > (setq-default tab-width 4)
> 
> I've found that this isn't always enough. If you want a real tab, you
> usually have to get emacs to call the tab-to-tab-stop function, which
> means that you also need to reset your tab stops. I've found that
> rebinding tab to call tab-to-tab-stop, and setting the tab-stop list
> to
> 
> '(4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80)
> 
> can help get what I'm really after, expecially in text
> mode. Personally I find the default indenting in Emacs just plain
> broken. Why the hell can't tab just do what it's told? 

Because tabs in general are broken.  I prefer what emacs does.  Read
this:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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