From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Britz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Blank spacers problem Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 07:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341388517 6202 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2012 07:55:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 07:55:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 09:55:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SmKQa-0006iV-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:55:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51313 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmKQZ-0004tk-KB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:55:11 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Injection-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 07:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="S2tr21+w9nqodxC34Z//Bw"; logging-data="22250"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+6cHbb/3wzhSRalaoncCqBYl1d7Lw7atE=" User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rxc0li9X2XJOsd9PepLV7dj1/D8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193251 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85640 Archived-At: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:57:00 +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Dieter Britz 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