From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathias_H=E4bich?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a beginner's emacs troubles Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:30:27 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: <1185749317.489626.226270@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185786101 8135 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2007 09:01:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:01:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 11:01:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFR86-0004jc-AE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:01:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFR85-0003yf-GO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:01:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeedt0.toon.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1185784227 02 8889 BAV56736WzHd5q7 070730 08:30:27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: rwq9G6ZfoehkSfSZcgpyvVUdSUg4ewi5RoK80S1LdVnN0rFenj7R4m User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070716 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <1185749317.489626.226270@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150598 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:00:55 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46176 Archived-At: f33ldead@gmail.com wrote: > * There's something strange with the way tab works in emacs. In cc > mode, I write a few letter then press and nothing happens! I'm not > allowed to put tabs anywhere on the file! I also tried editing an > empty file and I had no means of getting tab work!!! I just want my > tabs back! It's not strange at all if you know what function the TAB key is bound to. In cc-mode, it is c-indent-command, and in lisp-mode (the scratch buffer's mode) it is lisp-indent-line. (C-h k TAB tells you this - very useful!) What you want is probably tab-to-tab-stop, which is usually bound to M-i. Regards, Mathias