Re: Indentation settings problems

[Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>]

>> (setq-default tab-width 4
>>                indent-tabs-mode t)
>>
> 
> I found the sile, there was already some code and comments generated (very
> litte), and I added the code to the bottom of the document, however, it
> doesn't seem to have any effect, still indenting with 2 spaces.
did you "tabify" the buffer beforehand? i.e.
   M-x mark-whole-buffer RET
   M-x tabify RET

>> you could quickly evaluate it with C-x C-e to see its effect
>>
> 
> I did, and here is what I got:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable })
>   eval(})
>   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
> 
> Seems like an error, a variable called }? I checked the .ecams file, not a
> single curly bracket was in it.
a thing to try would be to start emacs with the -Q command line option 
and execute
M-: (setq-default tab-width 4) RET

followed by
M-: (setq-default indent-tabs-mode t) RET

to see if it still happens