From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Blake McBride Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TAB key to insert tab character Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:16:41 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <13qqdppbugrb39b@news.supernews.com> References: <13qppsk1c9mdg95@news.supernews.com> Reply-To: Blake McBride NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202550399 1209 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2008 09:46:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:46:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 10:47:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JNmIW-00019P-KF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:47:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNmI3-0003Nc-Nc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:46:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155982 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:44:41 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51366 Archived-At: Didn't help. I tried nil and non-nil and created a new buffer each time (t.txt) and it didn't change anything. And, yes, I did save it for the current session first. Thanks. Blake McBride Drew Adams wrote: >> 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'. > > >