From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "V. L. Simpson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs tabbing configuration Date: 15 Oct 2004 19:06:34 -0500 Organization: Monster Island Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y8i7zfud.fsf@ghidra.localhost> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097885603 30995 80.91.229.6 (16 Oct 2004 00:13:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:13:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 16 02:13:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CIcCB-0004zh-00 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:13:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIcJL-0005aO-Nh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:20:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!spooler1.hal-mli.net!news.hal-pc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-No-Archive: True Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.180.152.29.adsl.hal-pc.org Original-X-Trace: 1097885285 news.hal-pc.org 444 206.180.152.29:1607 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@hal-pc.org Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125896 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21266 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21266 >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Beresford writes: > How can I set up how many spaces the tab key will use? > THomas Beresford Check documentation for 'tab-width' -- C-h v return tab-width You need to realize that the tab key does different things in different modes as opposed to just moving the cursor to a certain defined column position. Check this url for more information: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryIndentation Hopefully, a tab related holy war will not be initiated by this thread. 8-] -- V. L. Simpson http://vls.freeshell.org/ http://www.nongnu.org/screenplay/ http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/VanceSimpson