From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Customizing tab stops Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231112854 14328 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2009 23:47:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:47:34 +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 Jan 05 00:48:45 2009 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 1LJci4-0007zQ-Jt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:48:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJcgp-0002PL-Ig for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:47:27 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1231088059 5722 166.84.1.3 (4 Jan 2009 16:54:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:54:19 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165720 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:47:08 -0500 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:61062 Archived-At: In a Fundamental-mode buffer, inserting a tab causes the cursor to jump to the next tab stop. By default these tab stops are at positions 8, 16, 24, etc. I would like to customize these spacings for a particular buffer. I thought that the variable tab-stop-list would do the trick. So I made it local to the buffer, and used the command edit-tab-stops to edit its value. Originally its value was the default (8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88 96 104 112 120) and I changed it to (16 27 58 68) ...but the display of the buffer was not affected; i.e. the tab-separated fields in the buffer remained at the default tab stops. I realize that the customized local value of tab-stop-list does affect the behavior of the tab-to-tab-stop command in this buffer, but this is not what I'm interested in. I want to affect how Emacs *displays* the text that follows a tab. Is there a way to customize such display? TIA! Kynn -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.