From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Make real tabs that stay tabs Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:50:10 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87a7wc33od.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518562238 16639 195.159.176.226 (13 Feb 2018 22:50:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:50:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 13 23:50:34 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eljOu-0002lP-AO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:50:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58957 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eljQw-00084Y-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:52:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58325) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eljQM-00083Y-Ab for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:51:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eljQH-0004Y0-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34511 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eljQH-0004W1-8M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:51:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eljNi-0006mE-GQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:48:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yalap4ASrXrVGtOM1zhiBh41pSw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115985 Archived-At: I know how to insert tabs in emacs I thought. C-q 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.