From: Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indentation settings problems
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:18:06 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB590DE.9080806@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB58B81.7060806@pobox.com>
>> So, I would prefer 4 spaces instead of 2, or even better, a tab
>> -Kristofer
>
> er, don't know about the menus - i never use them and have them turned
> off, but the following in your .emacs should work:
>
> (setq-default tab-width 4
> indent-tabs-mode t)
>
> you could quickly evaluate it with C-x C-e to see its effect
just to clarify this a bit further, you may need to 'tabify' your buffer
to see the desired effect, mark the whole buffer with C-x h and tabify
with M-x tabify
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-20 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-19 10:46 Indentation settings problems TriKri
2009-09-20 1:55 ` Bernardo
2009-09-20 2:18 ` Bernardo [this message]
2009-09-20 18:37 ` TriKri
2009-09-20 18:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-09-20 19:41 ` Andreas Politz
2009-09-24 7:42 ` TriKri
2009-09-20 22:22 ` TriKri
2009-09-21 10:57 ` Bernardo
2009-09-22 18:02 ` TriKri
2009-09-22 22:54 ` Bernardo
[not found] ` <mailman.7104.1253471858.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-21 21:27 ` jpkotta
2009-09-23 8:38 ` TriKri
2009-09-23 11:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-10-01 22:44 ` TriKri
2009-10-03 5:45 ` tomas
2009-10-03 19:56 ` TriKri
[not found] ` <mailman.7953.1254599775.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-07 18:57 ` John A Pershing Jr
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