From: Glauber Alex Dias Prado <smade4@gmail.com>
To: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:59:01 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fx5nz23e.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zl3wuxii.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (Tim X.'s message of "Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:39:17 +1100")
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> 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?
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> * 2010-01-29 11:28 (-0800), Brendan Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I hit tab in text mode, it indents by 5 spaces. How do I change
>>>> that? Setting tab-width doesn't seem to do the right thing.
>>>
>>> TAB key in text-mode indents to the columns of previous line's words. If
>>> you want to go to next tab stop, as defined in tab-stop-list variable,
>>> use M-i. For example, first write a line like this:
>>>
>>> Here are some words.
>>>
>>> Then press TAB key a couple of times on the next line. Then go to the
>>> beginning of line and press M-i a couple of times. You should see the
>>> difference.
>>>
>>
>>
>
> You missed the critical phrase in Teemu's response i.e.
>
> "you want to go to next tab stop, as defined in tab-stop-list variable,"
>
> ,----[ C-h v tab-stop-list RET ]
> | tab-stop-list is a variable defined in `indent.el'.
> | Its value is
> | (4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76)
> |
> |
> | This variable is safe as a file local variable if its value
> | satisfies the predicate `listp'.
> |
> | Documentation:
> | List of tab stop positions used by `tab-to-tab-stop'.
> | This should be a list of integers, ordered from smallest to largest.
> |
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----
Sorry not related to the original question but what do you use to have a
box like that above when writing?
> The 'default' emacs version jumps by 8 spaces per tab stop.
>
> Tim
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2010-01-29 19:39 ` change spaces indent in text mode? Teemu Likonen
2010-01-29 20:50 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-29 21:22 ` Tom Rauchenwald
2010-01-30 0:51 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-30 1:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 21:30 ` Tyler Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.444.1264800653.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.447.1264801240.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-06 8:11 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 0:51 ` Tim X
2010-02-07 3:31 ` Tim X
2010-02-08 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.443.1264798210.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 2:39 ` Tim X
2010-01-30 21:59 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.477.1264888760.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 23:06 ` Tim X
2010-01-31 2:05 ` Suvayu Ali
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1264903543.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-02 1:32 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-06 8:21 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 7:23 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 19:28 Brendan Miller
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