unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* How do you indent multiple levels with tab key?
@ 2010-07-30 22:15 Daniel
  2010-07-30 22:55 ` Lowell Gilbert
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel @ 2010-07-30 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi,

I can indent once with the tab key, but that's it, no matter how many
times I press the tab key.  How can I make the tabbing behave normally
like most people are used to?

Thanks


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread

* Re: How do you indent multiple levels with tab key?
  2010-07-30 22:15 How do you indent multiple levels with tab key? Daniel
@ 2010-07-30 22:55 ` Lowell Gilbert
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lowell Gilbert @ 2010-07-30 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Daniel <unagimiyagi@gmail.com> writes:

> I can indent once with the tab key, but that's it, no matter how many
> times I press the tab key.  How can I make the tabbing behave normally
> like most people are used to?

Indentation with a tab key depends on the mode.  In most editing modes,
the tab key indents to what it thinks is the correct indentation length
for that line (in that mode), which means that pressing tab again will
just indent to the same place.  For programming modes, you want to
figure out why emacs's idea of the correct indentation is different than
yours.  How you do this may depend on the mode you are in (i.e., what
type of file you are editing).  You may need to be more specific if you
want more detailed help.  Alternatively, you may want to look at the
documentation for the mode you are working in.


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2010-07-30 22:55 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2010-07-30 22:15 How do you indent multiple levels with tab key? Daniel
2010-07-30 22:55 ` Lowell Gilbert

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).