From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indentation settings problems Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:41:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87y6o9ieui.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <25520490.post@talk.nabble.com> <4AB58B81.7060806@pobox.com> <25530110.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253475732 14060 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2009 19:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:42:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 20 21:42:05 2009 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 4.50) id 1MpSIN-0005gG-65 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MpSIM-0004sL-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MpSI1-0004p5-43 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MpSHx-0004jm-5R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46141 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MpSHw-0004jf-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50151) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MpSHw-0000fE-4j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MpSHs-0005Wu-S9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-084-059-097-122.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.59.97.122]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from politza by dslb-084-059-097-122.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:41:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-059-097-122.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fAcuALx0XJxExXyK9RJj7SvWDZ8= 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:68330 Archived-At: TriKri writes: > Bernardo Bacic wrote: >> >> er, don't know about the menus - i never use them and have them turned >> off, but the following in your .emacs should work: >> >> (setq-default tab-width 4 >> indent-tabs-mode t) >> > > In which file should I add it? I can't find any file ending with .emacs. I > made a search in the entire emacs folder and ordered by date last modified, > but no file is modified later than July this year, and I have made changes > in the options this month. So, where is the file located? Is there any quick > way to add it with emacs? Maybe you're more the customize-type. M-x customize-option tab-width RET or M-x customize-apropos tab RET -ap