From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: georg1000@gmx.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: display of TAB character Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:15:35 +0100 (MET) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16848.1069888535@www46.gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069888813 997 80.91.224.253 (26 Nov 2003 23:20:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:20:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 00:20:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AP8x8-0007Vg-00 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:20:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AP9tm-0001mN-As for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AP9qo-0001N3-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:17:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AP9qB-00015Y-LT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AP9qA-000143-Nq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 24379 invoked by uid 0); 26 Nov 2003 23:15:35 -0000 Original-Received: from 212.186.106.115 by www46.gmx.net with HTTP; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:15:35 +0100 (MET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #21297844 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14629 In http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html Jamie Zawinski writes concerning the display of the TAB character: A third interpretation is for the ASCII TAB character to mean ``indent to the next tab stop,'' where the tab stops are set arbitrarily: they might not necessarily be equally distanced from each other. Most word processors can do this; Emacs can do this. I don't think vi can do this, but I'm not sure. I was unable to find out how to do this. The only way to change the display of TAB is by changing `tab-width', which can only be set to a constant value. I do not want to change the behaviour of the tab key (with `tab-stop-list' for example), but the display of the TAB key. Thanks in advance, Georg. -- HoHoHo! Seid Ihr auch alle schön brav gewesen? GMX Weihnachts-Special: Die 1. Adresse für Weihnachts- männer und -frauen! http://www.gmx.net/de/cgi/specialmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++