From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Customizing tab stops Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:19:52 -0800 Organization: Noname Inc. Message-ID: <81vdsr928n.fsf@myhost.sbcglobal.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231303259 30684 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2009 04:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 04:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 05:42:10 2009 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 1LKQF2-0006pn-3v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:42:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LKQDm-0003Vo-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:40:46 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flph200.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flph199.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com.POSTED!8e1d8614!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:kHQcSTuhFebHiXxzuPvkSo+uTaQ= Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.202.61.169 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com 1231301993 ST000 76.202.61.169 (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:19:53 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:19:53 EST X-UserInfo1: SCSYQN_@FS@SSVPXJJMF_W@BFJT@QDDMEPWXODMMHXMTWA]EPUUEAE[YETZPIWWI[FCIZA^NBFXZ_D[BFNTCNVPDTNTKHWXKB@X^B_OCJLPZ@ET_O[G\XSG@E\G[ZKVLBL^CJINM@I_KVIOR\T_M_AW_M[_BWU_HFA_]@A_A^SGFAUDE_DFTMQPFWVW[QPJN Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165811 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:61146 Archived-At: kj writes: > In a Fundamental-mode buffer, inserting a tab causes the cursor to > jump to the next tab stop. By default these tab stops are at > positions 8, 16, 24, etc. I would like to customize these spacings > for a particular buffer. > > I thought that the variable tab-stop-list would do the trick. So > I made it local to the buffer, and used the command edit-tab-stops > to edit its value. Originally its value was the default > > (8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88 96 104 112 120) > > and I changed it to > > (16 27 58 68) > > ...but the display of the buffer was not affected; i.e. the > tab-separated fields in the buffer remained at the default tab > stops. > > I realize that the customized local value of tab-stop-list does > affect the behavior of the tab-to-tab-stop command in this buffer, > but this is not what I'm interested in. I want to affect how Emacs > *displays* the text that follows a tab. > > Is there a way to customize such display? > > TIA! > > Kynn I have been wondering such word processor like features are available in any text editors. Where was this file created?