* tab and space
@ 2003-03-16 4:41 cyrus
2003-03-16 19:14 ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-03-24 21:26 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: cyrus @ 2003-03-16 4:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.
Thanks
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* Re: tab and space
2003-03-16 4:41 tab and space cyrus
@ 2003-03-16 19:14 ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-03-24 21:26 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Benjamin Rutt @ 2003-03-16 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
"cyrus" <cyrus@cyrus.com> writes:
> When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
> regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
> notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.
Try (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil). Then, your future
emacs-created files will use only spaces to indent, and there's no
issue of how another editors interprets a tab, since there shouldn't
be any TAB characters in your documents anymore. Although I have no
idea why you'd ever want to use another editor. :)
--
Benjamin
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* Re: tab and space
2003-03-16 4:41 tab and space cyrus
2003-03-16 19:14 ` Benjamin Rutt
@ 2003-03-24 21:26 ` Kai Großjohann
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-03-24 21:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
"cyrus" <cyrus@cyrus.com> writes:
> When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
> regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
> notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.
By default, Emacs assumes that tab characters are eight columns
wide. You can frob the variable tab-width to change this. So by
default, a followed by TAB followed by b is shown as follows:
a b
And if you set tab-width to 4, the same three characters are shown
like this:
a b
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
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