Re: Blank spacers problem

[Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:57:00 +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I have a Fortran program, which echoes a table of input parameters. The
>> emacs source looks like this:
>>
>>   print '(" Nth, Nga                =", 2i10)', Nth, Nga print '(" mth,
>>   mGa, deriv windows =", 2i10)', mth, mGa print '(" dT, nT, Tmax       
>>       =", f10.3, i10, f10.2)', dT, nT, nT*dT print '(" Blob radius R0  
>>          =", f12.1)', R0 print '(" S0                      =", f10.3)',
>>   S0 print '(" P0                      =", f10.3)', P0 print '(" mu    
>>                    =", f10.3)', mu print '(" KM                     
>>   =", f10.3)', KM
>>
>>
>> - on screen, that is. I work under Suse 12.1 and have what I think is a
>> pretty up to date version of emacs. The problem is that the equal sign
>> characters are not positioned as they appear on screen, but have
>> various positions, so the output is staggered instead of being lined
>> up.
> 
> Do I get it right that the program looks exactly like above when viewed
> in emacs, but when you run it, the output doesn't line up?

You got it

> 
> If so, then the problem could be that your shell uses a proportional
> font (i.e., a font where a T uses up more space than, say, an i), or
> that the blank space between the identifiers and = uses tabs instead of
> spaces, and your shell happens to use a different tab-width than emacs.

Can I suppress this, so that every character takes up the same space?
Is this some setting in emacs?

-- 
Dieter Britz