Howto preserve <tab> key?

Howto preserve <tab> key?

[howcom]

I've recently upgrated to GNU emacs 22.1.1. It seems that version 22
has changed the behavior of the <tab> key; more often than not
pressing tab will result in a series of spaces being added rather than
a real tab character. I know I can insert a real tab by way of C-q,
but I'd like for the <tab> key to also exhibit this behavior. I guess
there's a simple solution to my problem, but I can't find an obvious
answer. Help is appreciated.

Re: Howto preserve <tab> key?

[David Kastrup]

howcom@gmail.com writes:

> I've recently upgrated to GNU emacs 22.1.1. It seems that version 22
> has changed the behavior of the <tab> key; more often than not
> pressing tab will result in a series of spaces being added rather than
> a real tab character.

That's been the default in pretty much all modes (things like
makefile-mode obviously excepted) since as long as I remember using
Emacs, and that's since version 18.something.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Howto preserve <tab> key?

[howcom]

On Jul 10, 2:50 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:

> > I've recently upgrated to GNU emacs 22.1.1. It seems that version 22
> > has changed the behavior of the <tab> key; more often than not
> > pressing tab will result in a series of spaces being added rather than
> > a real tab character.
>
> That's been the default in pretty much all modes (things like
> makefile-mode obviously excepted) since as long as I remember using
> Emacs, and that's since version 18.something.

Yes, it has also happened in the past when. However, it happens much
more frequently in emacs 22. I think I may have found a solution:

  (setq indent-line-function 'indent-to-left-margin)

It seems as if the default value for indent-line-function was changed
from
'indent-to-left-margin to 'indent-relative at some point; changing it
back
gets me the behavior I'm used to.

Thanks for your answer, though!

Re: Howto preserve <tab> key?

[Kevin Rodgers]

howcom@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2:50 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>>> I've recently upgrated to GNU emacs 22.1.1. It seems that version 22
>>> has changed the behavior of the <tab> key; more often than not
>>> pressing tab will result in a series of spaces being added rather than
>>> a real tab character.
>> That's been the default in pretty much all modes (things like
>> makefile-mode obviously excepted) since as long as I remember using
>> Emacs, and that's since version 18.something.
> 
> Yes, it has also happened in the past when. However, it happens much
> more frequently in emacs 22. I think I may have found a solution:
> 
>   (setq indent-line-function 'indent-to-left-margin)
> 
> It seems as if the default value for indent-line-function was changed
> from
> 'indent-to-left-margin to 'indent-relative at some point; changing it
> back
> gets me the behavior I'm used to.

What does `C-h v indent-tabs-mode' say?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA