From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:05:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B64E56F.6080801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrz0ittg.fsf@mithlond.arda>
Hi,
On Friday 29 January 2010 11:39 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2010-01-29 11:28 (-0800), Brendan Miller wrote:
>
>> When I hit tab in text mode, it indents by 5 spaces. How do I change
>> that? Setting tab-width doesn't seem to do the right thing.
>
> TAB key in text-mode indents to the columns of previous line's words. If
> you want to go to next tab stop, as defined in tab-stop-list variable,
> use M-i. For example, first write a line like this:
>
> Here are some words.
>
> Then press TAB key a couple of times on the next line. Then go to the
> beginning of line and press M-i a couple of times. You should see the
> difference.
Maybe this is a little off-topic, but is their anyway to have that
behaviour of the TAB key with source code, say C++ or Python? I would
like to align various similar consecutive lines to make them easy to
read. Thanks for any suggestions.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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2010-01-29 19:39 ` change spaces indent in text mode? Teemu Likonen
2010-01-29 20:50 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-29 21:22 ` Tom Rauchenwald
2010-01-30 0:51 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-30 1:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 21:30 ` Tyler Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.444.1264800653.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.447.1264801240.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-06 8:11 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 0:51 ` Tim X
2010-02-07 3:31 ` Tim X
2010-02-08 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.443.1264798210.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 2:39 ` Tim X
2010-01-30 21:59 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
[not found] ` <mailman.477.1264888760.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 23:06 ` Tim X
2010-01-31 2:05 ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1264903543.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-02 1:32 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-06 8:21 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 7:23 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 19:28 Brendan Miller
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