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From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: Tab not space
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:05:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874qtnt8i0.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.77.1077199474.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Piotr Piwko" <piotrpiwko@afro.afraid.org> writes:

> My emacs changes tab to spaces. For example: If I put tab, I will have 4
> spaces, but i want have 1 tab
> How can I off it?

You can always type C-q TAB to insert a literal tab character.

Also see the variable indent-tabs-mode; it controls whether
tabbing inserts tabs or only spaces.

Also see the variable tab-width; it controls how a literal tab
character should be displayed.

Kai

       reply	other threads:[~2004-02-19 15:05 UTC|newest]

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2004-02-19 15:05 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2004-02-19 13:49 Tab not space Piotr Piwko
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2004-02-19 13:01 Piotr Piwko

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