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From: jwithers <jpwithers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: making TAB in text major mode just work
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:35:12 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16776938-be7b-4c7b-a8ad-b61ba6ac20a2@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Folks,

In text mode, or in fundamental mode for that matter, if emacs decides
you are indenting to some point before a tab stop, it helpfully
decides that you want that indent on following lines. This is a real
pita when you are doing bullet points, as follows:

        |<-----the first tab stop
* This is a bullet point
* This is another bullet point

  This is a paragraph that is now indented incorrectly because emacs
has decided that my bullet points mean this line should be indented
two spaces.

I am looking for some way to stop this behavior, so that emacs doesn't
decide I need smart indentation, which is just ducky for coding, but
really sucks when I am writing reports. And doing a control-q tab
isn't really good in my mind. I don't want to have to keep remembering
to do something different than just type when I am in the flow of
working.

Any help would be appreciated, I have changed all the various
indentation settings I could find and looked on the emacswiki, but
havent' found a solution to this.

john withers

             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-22 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-22 20:35 jwithers [this message]
2007-11-23  2:30 ` making TAB in text major mode just work Giorgos Keramidas
2007-11-23 11:37 ` Bastien
     [not found] ` <mailman.3972.1195817873.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-23 16:51   ` Mathias Dahl
2007-11-25 23:26     ` Bastien
2007-11-26 15:53 ` Ehud Karni
2007-11-26 18:20   ` Bastien
2007-11-26 21:23     ` Ehud Karni

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