From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make real tabs that stay tabs
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:19:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1vgfpg9.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9064.1518562304.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 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.
In recent Emacs, there's a custom option "Backward Delete Char Untabify
Method" (there's a variable backward-delete-char-untabify-method too, of
course) in the "Killing" group.
--
Ben.
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2018-02-13 23:04 ` Skip Montanaro
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2018-02-13 23:10 ` Skip Montanaro
2018-02-15 1:50 ` Bob Proulx
2018-02-15 7:41 ` Bastian Beischer
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