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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Make real tabs that stay tabs
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:50:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7wc33od.fsf@local.lan> (raw)

I know how to insert tabs in emacs I thought.

C-q <tab>

And sure enough the cursor jumps like a tab was inserted.

So insert 2 or three but OOPS If I decide to back one out with
backspace I'm backing by spaces not by tabs.

Seems like if I take care to insert a real tab then it ought to act
like a real tab when I backspace over it too.

Recently I found myself correcting an rsnapshot.conf file where things
MUST be separated by tabs.. one way to test is to back over what is
there and see if your cursor jumps a tabs worth.  But apparently that
cannot be done with emacs.

I seem to recall being able to do that in the past.

Can someone explain this to me.






             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-13 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-13 22:50 Harry Putnam [this message]
     [not found] ` <CANc-5UxbB-kOxz6edFdT7Zfht3bAAC-5+_oH5zH_HzhCoQ9QsA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <CANc-5Uw7WwgipT7iXjm09sKa4Uumuk9i5gP0eB-9pPeszfTdwA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <CANc-5UxrJdwDRH=OMHTZVpVpyNKMD+mnm08r9MaL1V6LgKoYFw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <CANc-5UyVM5Bxi-ebCaZ0Ktc5EYCi0nboLqpgOtTiWwWhOSoGMw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-13 23:04         ` Make real tabs that stay tabs Skip Montanaro
     [not found]           ` <CANc-5UxbZnxgQtsFKVCdJ3DX_M5fd-jUkfMD-up=uV8JfxP5FQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-13 23:10             ` Skip Montanaro
2018-02-15  1:50 ` Bob Proulx
2018-02-15  7:41 ` Bastian Beischer
     [not found] <mailman.9064.1518562304.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-02-13 23:19 ` Ben Bacarisse

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