From: Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:30:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr4s4n0r.fsf@eku238261.eku.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ef38762f1001291250o228afa8bie2c8a0dce362ec03@mail.gmail.com
Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> writes:
> The only problem I have, is that m-i seems to indent by 8 spaces. I
> tried putting
>
> (setq tab-width 4) in my .emacs, but that doesn't seem to change
> anything... is m-i controlled by a different variable?
The documentation is a little confusing on this, at least to me. My
Emacs manual (info "(emacs)Text Display") says that you need to use
default-tab-width for this, as tab-width is buffer local, meaning it
only applies to the buffer you were in when you set it. However, the
help for default-tab-width (C-h v default-tab-width) says that
default-tab-width is deprecated, and tab-width should be used instead.
I think this might qualify as a buglet in the documentation, unless I'm
missing something obvious.
Tyler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-29 21:30 UTC|newest]
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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 [this message]
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2010-02-01 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
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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
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2010-01-30 2:39 ` Tim X
2010-01-30 21:59 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
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2010-01-30 23:06 ` Tim X
2010-01-31 2:05 ` Suvayu Ali
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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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