From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: making TAB in text major mode just work
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:26:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6id6h6e.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uwss8ucpx.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:51:38 +0100")
Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:
>> And if you want to concentrate on what you type, why are you pressing
>> TAB when at the "This is a paragraph" line? This line starts at the
>> beginning of the line when written normally.
>
> I think he might want the text to start at the "real" tab stop,
> indented even more.
Then using `M-i' (M-x tab-to-tab-stop) might help.
Setting `tab-always-indent' to `nil' isn't very useful here because this
variable has no effect when the point is at the beginning of the line.
Maybe this variable could accept a value of 'never, meaning that it
should never indent relatively, even when the point is at the beginning
of the line?
BTW, the docstring of `tab-always-indent' does not mention 'always, even
customizing `tab-always-indent' offers this as an option.
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-25 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 20:35 making TAB in text major mode just work jwithers
2007-11-23 2:30 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-11-23 11:37 ` Bastien
[not found] ` <mailman.3972.1195817873.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-23 16:51 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-11-25 23:26 ` Bastien [this message]
2007-11-26 15:53 ` Ehud Karni
2007-11-26 18:20 ` Bastien
2007-11-26 21:23 ` Ehud Karni
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