From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Paul D. Smith" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Understanding Emacs and Tabs Date: 06 May 2003 13:41:18 -0400 Organization: GNU's Not Unix! Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <227a55e9.0305060728.582d5361@posting.google.com> Reply-To: psmith@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052243796 7332 80.91.224.249 (6 May 2003 17:56:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 19:56:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19D6g5-0001tv-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 19:56:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19D6fA-0003cW-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2003 13:55:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!utnut!qcarhaaa.nortelnetworks.com!bcarh189.ca.nortel.com!zcars0v6!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.17.140.90 Original-X-Trace: zcars0v6.ca.nortel.com 1052242867 458 47.17.140.90 (6 May 2003 17:41:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: hawkinsj@nortelnetworks.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:41:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112849 X-Originally-To: pemente@northpark.edu (Eric Pement) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9344 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9344 You should probably point out that, regardless of the mode or other settings, you can always insert an actual TAB character by first typing C-q, as in: C-q TAB You should probably also mention the "*-tab-always-indent" variables; for example c-tab-always-indent. I set this (and its brethren in various other programming modes) to nil and that works much better for me than the default setting of t. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist