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
Oh, and btw, the tab-width variable has nothing to do with inserting
tabs in text. It has to do with how tabs that are already in the file
are displayed, if you want to change the default from 8.
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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