TAB's display width does not equals to 4-spaces' display width

TAB's display width does not equals to 4-spaces' display width

[Sun Yijiang]

CVS version appears to be so, but not 21.3.1 release version.
OS: Linux & Win32
tab-width's value: 4

Re: TAB's display width does not equals to 4-spaces' display width

[Stephan Stahl]

Hi.

Sun Yijiang said:
> CVS version appears to be so, but not 21.3.1 release version.
> OS: Linux & Win32
> tab-width's value: 4

My emacsen have this set to 8. Both GNU/Linux and W32 no matter if
release or cvs.

Since the beginning of the world tab-width's value has been 8 :-).
And i guess it will stay this way even if some editors/IDEs have a
value of 4.

C-h v tab-width
You can customize this variable.
-- 
Stephan Stahl

Re: TAB's display width does not equals to 4-spaces' display width

[Sun Yijiang]

Thanks. But it seems no matter my tab-width is 4 or 8 or any other
value, the problem remains the same: tab's display width does not
exactly match it's equal-spaces' display width.  Since emacs 21.3.1
and latest CVS version are both on my computer, and they make
different tab-width displays, I do think there's something to be fix.

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:08:42 +0100 (CET), Stephan Stahl
<stahl@eos.franken.de> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Sun Yijiang said:
> > CVS version appears to be so, but not 21.3.1 release version.
> > OS: Linux & Win32
> > tab-width's value: 4
> 
> My emacsen have this set to 8. Both GNU/Linux and W32 no matter if
> release or cvs.
> 
> Since the beginning of the world tab-width's value has been 8 :-).
> And i guess it will stay this way even if some editors/IDEs have a
> value of 4.
> 
> C-h v tab-width
> You can customize this variable.
> --
> Stephan Stahl
>