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From: Chris <matrix2468REMOVETHISTOREPLY@cox.net>
Subject: Unable to Set Tab Width
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 03:57:59 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5wea.52488$_F2.4570178@news1.east.cox.net> (raw)

Despite countless efforts, I cannot set the tab width
in emacs to 2 spaces instead of 4.

 >uname -a
HP-UX host B.11.00 U 9000/785 2007718834 unlimited-user license

 >/usr/local/bin/emacs-21.2.1
 >cat .emacs
(setq default-tab-width 2)

I thought the above command would set the tab width to 2,
but it is stuck at 4!

That is all I have in the emacs file.

I did have that long list of tab stops such as 2 4 6 8 ...
but that didn't help.

Any suggestions?

It's driving me nuts while editing perl or java.

I thought emacs was configurable... no?

I have the same trouble with a Win32 version of emacs (20.7.1).

Any help appreciated,
Chris

             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-21  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-21  3:57 Chris [this message]
2003-03-21  8:20 ` Unable to Set Tab Width Erik Simon
2003-03-21 13:39 ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-03-21 20:33 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-03-22  4:27 ` Chris

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