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From: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>
To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Spaces instead of tabs in new mode
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:54:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245192889.15893.2.camel@drserver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ciqiwwf18.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com>

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 14:15 +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have programming and indent-line for my new major mode but tabs are
> > not shown as spaces and are too big. How can I program emacs to show
> > the tabs as spaces and have a way to program the number of spaces per
> > tab?
> 
> M-x customize-variable RET tab-width RET

OK, thanks. Should I set that variable in my new mode or should I leave
it to the user to set to whatever value it wants?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos





  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-16 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.703.1245153994.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-16 12:15 ` Spaces instead of tabs in new mode Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-06-16 22:54   ` Paulo J. Matos [this message]
2009-06-16 12:06 Paulo J. Matos
2009-06-16 12:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-06-16 22:49   ` Paulo J. Matos
2009-06-17  0:40     ` Drew Adams
2009-06-19 18:17       ` Paulo J. Matos

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