From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Overriding behavior in major modes (sql-mode, here) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:25:53 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <874pi1fw1a.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189500203 29900 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2007 08:43:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:43:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 11 18:43:03 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 1IV8pL-0006wS-Hj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:43:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IV1L3-0001k6-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:43:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rNrAUyiweu1/ywmNR/fXpsEeNaQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 22 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151965 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:47476 Archived-At: Michael Trausch <"mike|s/\x40/\./g;s/|.*|/\x40/g;|trausch"@us> writes: > There is a slight annoyance in sql-mode in Emacs 22 that I would like to > work around. Namely, I would like to use the key to indent by two > spaces. So far, simply setting indent-tabs-mode to nil and tab-width to > 2 does the job for me, but in sql mode, those settings seem to be ignored. > > How do I go about forcing the key to behave the way that I would > like it to behave---consistently with all my other editing tasks? > A very quick look makes me think that sql-mode is using the tab-to-tab-stop function to do its indentation. I would try setting tab-stop-list and see if that helps. M-x edit-tab-stops will let you edit the list interactively. HTH Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au