From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Rauchenwald Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:22:23 +0100 Organization: modprobe.de Message-ID: <87y6jgr4hc.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> References: <87wrz0ittg.fsf@mithlond.arda> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264801265 15379 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2010 21:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:41:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 22:41:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NayaM-0005gY-Kn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:41:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39313 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NayaM-0007Is-31 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:41:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NayZz-0007Im-8X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:40:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51064 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NayZx-0007Ia-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:40:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NayZx-00087O-2K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:40:37 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55073) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NayZw-00087K-Oj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:40:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NayZp-0005JR-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from 77.118.2.67.wireless.dyn.drei.com ([77.118.2.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:40:28 +0100 Original-Received: from sehnsucht.nach.unendlichkeit by 77.118.2.67.wireless.dyn.drei.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:40:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.118.2.67.wireless.dyn.drei.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:apKSs23rRCfom5xP4a5qEv8XeX4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71568 Archived-At: Brendan Miller 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? Try (setq-default tab-width 4) -tom -- Ob ein Sandkorn oder ein Stein, im Wasser gehen sie beide unter. -- Mi-do