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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'.





  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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