From: don provan <dprovan@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Indentation.
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:54:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1wosgz3e.fsf@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1162052730.412600.256330@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com
jmg3000@gmail.com writes:
> (setq-default tab-width 4)
>
> should be just what you want.
Whoa! The original question quite correctly asked for four *space*
indentation. Changing the tab width to some non-standard value is
irrelevant, just typical confusion between the tab character in the
file (which, if other than 8 characters, can conflict with other
utilities) and the indent command that moves lines according to a
visual intentation scheme that has nothing at all to do with the tab
setting.
Also, there's no reason to suggest setting this value *globally*.
Let's just teach him to set it in the buffers he wants this special
indentation in: maybe as he gets used to normal "smart" indentation in
other modes, he'll loosen up about how he thinks indentation should
work.
-don
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-28 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-27 16:17 Indentation zombek
2006-10-27 16:53 ` Indentation Sam Peterson
2006-10-27 18:58 ` Indentation Sam Peterson
2006-10-28 16:25 ` Indentation jmg3000
2006-10-28 16:28 ` Indentation jmg3000
2006-10-28 16:54 ` don provan [this message]
2006-10-28 23:29 ` Indentation jmg3000
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2022-01-26 14:13 Indentation Pierre L. Nageoire
2022-01-26 21:18 ` Indentation Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-27 3:30 ` Indentation Pierre L. Nageoire
2022-01-27 10:15 ` Indentation Robert Pluim
2022-01-28 6:31 ` Indentation Pierre L. Nageoire
2021-04-27 7:03 indentation ptlo
2021-04-27 7:25 ` indentation Philip Kaludercic
2021-04-27 15:45 ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-27 16:06 ` indentation Colin Baxter
2021-04-27 18:43 ` indentation Thibaut Verron
2021-04-27 19:00 ` indentation Colin Baxter
2021-04-27 19:20 ` indentation Thibaut Verron
2021-04-27 20:02 ` indentation Colin Baxter
2021-04-28 8:36 ` indentation Thibaut Verron
2021-04-27 9:30 ` indentation Gregory Heytings
2021-04-27 9:47 ` indentation Joost Kremers
2021-04-27 16:55 ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 22:12 ` indentation Gregory Heytings
2021-04-27 17:07 ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 18:29 ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-27 20:31 ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-28 6:32 ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-28 6:42 ` indentation Joost Kremers
2021-04-28 14:14 ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-29 7:14 ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-29 13:43 ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-29 14:23 ` indentation Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-30 7:05 ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-30 7:58 ` indentation Philip Kaludercic
2021-04-30 8:54 ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-30 9:09 ` indentation Thibaut Verron
2021-04-30 9:18 ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-30 19:05 ` indentation Jean Louis
2021-04-30 19:59 ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-30 21:58 ` indentation Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-29 21:14 ` indentation Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-30 20:17 ` indentation Tassilo Horn
2021-05-01 13:43 ` indentation Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-02 7:20 ` indentation Tassilo Horn
2021-05-04 21:03 ` indentation Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-05 1:46 ` indentation Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2006-10-27 16:17 Indentation zombek
2006-10-27 16:46 ` Indentation Markus Triska
2006-10-27 18:01 ` Indentation Malte Spiess
2006-11-01 20:41 ` Indentation Markus Triska
2006-07-03 22:01 Indentation Ronny Mandal
2006-07-03 23:00 ` Indentation Colin S. Miller
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2003-10-23 13:19 ` indentation Gareth Rees
2003-10-23 1:14 indentation Yen Tran
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