From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suvayu Ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:56:33 -0800 Message-ID: <4B6391D1.1080801@gmail.com> References: <87wrz0ittg.fsf@mithlond.arda> <87y6jgr4hc.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264816627 26464 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2010 01:57:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:57:07 +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 Jan 30 02:57:04 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb2a6-0004Yp-5k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:57:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nb2a5-000465-In for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:57:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nb2Zg-000460-4V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:56:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51794 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nb2Ze-00045s-QS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:56:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb2Zd-0003Yb-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:56:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f192.google.com ([209.85.222.192]:56135) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb2Zd-0003YN-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:56:33 -0500 Original-Received: by pzk30 with SMTP id 30so2158886pzk.24 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:56:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3A9b6JMRnemIoOBR6zSj2aHWu++xBnejdILHQF52RQY=; b=rtNsFHhnEtGSMRgJMTzRqQNhiZcNjsLPMuCOpNF1Ij5cmitYK0P26nKEH9ONlSG3zA +yxGquprbwy6LHlXhYbIC8RSxbPgB9T1++BB/ayzOvuMSlxcsJ019hvE1poVgM7aF+Zq y9ZzwSm21qmCYOq2zZw2atv1N9Lki2dp9bQXs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fU7lm2XA1YQ+ayOAMmKbzJY1I13HptZGaXSmrFKB9GMdPJ0kT6ePAGBP4/4Ggru9uz aYO0FquPtw+X9Axg2VTQ3wCiA69ghzG60LIHYjLCMPe3YWS/EDWJJFdluBExNE34pv+P oHeZgNByr2NcPyRQlSxsErMhJD9gMv8cJSk1I= Original-Received: by 10.114.189.10 with SMTP id m10mr1093972waf.94.1264816591680; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:56:31 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ?142.58.122.14? (p8460-6.phys.sfu.ca [142.58.122.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm2070236pzk.0.2010.01.29.17.56.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:56:30 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:71575 Archived-At: On Friday 29 January 2010 04:51 PM, Brendan Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tom Rauchenwald > wrote: >> Brendan Miller writes: >> >>> Great, thanks! >>> >>> The only problem I have, is that m-i seems to indent by 8 spaces. I >>> tried putting >>> >>> (setq tab-width 4) in my .emacs, but that doesn't seem to change >>> anything... is m-i controlled by a different variable? >> >> Try (setq-default tab-width 4) > > Nope. m-i still indents by 8 spaces. > > I'm on emacs 23, if that matters. For now you can try `M-x edit-tab-stops RET'. That allows you to edit the tab stops interactively. Hopefully this will be helpful. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.