From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Blake McBride'" <blake@mcbride.name>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: TAB key to insert tab character
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:34:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000801c86ad5$21276f70$a350908d@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13qppsk1c9mdg95@news.supernews.com>
> I have the TAB key doing exactly what I want when editing C or Lisp
> programs but I can't get it to do what I want in TEXT or FUNDAMENTAL
> modes. I did try to get rid of my .gnu-emacs-custom file
> temporarily to
> verify that none of my other customizations were causing the problem.
>
> What is happening is that when I hit the TAB key it inserts a
> number of
> spaces to line the cursor up with the second word of the previous
> sentence. What I want (in TEXT & FUNDAMENTAL modes) is for
> the TAB key
> to just add a TAB. Not an equivalent number of spaces for a
> TAB or to
> line it up with the previous line's second word - just add a
> single TAB
> character.
See option `indent-tabs-mode'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-09 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 23:36 TAB key to insert tab character Blake McBride
2008-02-09 4:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.7193.1202531707.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-09 5:16 ` Blake McBride
2008-02-09 13:13 ` Steve Taylor
2008-02-09 10:03 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.7204.1202551399.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-09 17:54 ` Blake McBride
2008-02-09 17:58 ` Will Parsons
2008-02-09 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-09 20:56 ` Blake McBride
2008-02-10 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.7240.1202616871.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-11 14:27 ` Blake McBride
2008-02-12 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.7229.1202586422.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-10 1:18 ` Will Parsons
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