From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jwithers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: making TAB in text major mode just work Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:35:12 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <16776938-be7b-4c7b-a8ad-b61ba6ac20a2@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195815961 24749 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2007 11:06:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:06:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 12:06:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IvWLM-0001bB-Ft for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:05:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvWL8-0006uk-91 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:04:54 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.141.16 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195763713 27645 127.0.0.1 (22 Nov 2007 20:35:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.141.16; posting-account=f8L8HQoAAAC9XHhPocOwYMEMLuujTPJ1 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153981 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:04:08 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49437 Archived-At: 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