From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:39:17 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zl3wuxii.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.443.1264798210.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> 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?
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>> * 2010-01-29 11:28 (-0800), Brendan Miller wrote:
>>
>>> When I hit tab in text mode, it indents by 5 spaces. How do I change
>>> that? Setting tab-width doesn't seem to do the right thing.
>>
>> TAB key in text-mode indents to the columns of previous line's words. If
>> you want to go to next tab stop, as defined in tab-stop-list variable,
>> use M-i. For example, first write a line like this:
>>
>> Here are some words.
>>
>> Then press TAB key a couple of times on the next line. Then go to the
>> beginning of line and press M-i a couple of times. You should see the
>> difference.
>>
>
>
You missed the critical phrase in Teemu's response i.e.
"you want to go to next tab stop, as defined in tab-stop-list variable,"
,----[ C-h v tab-stop-list RET ]
| tab-stop-list is a variable defined in `indent.el'.
| Its value is
| (4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76)
|
|
| This variable is safe as a file local variable if its value
| satisfies the predicate `listp'.
|
| Documentation:
| List of tab stop positions used by `tab-to-tab-stop'.
| This should be a list of integers, ordered from smallest to largest.
|
| You can customize this variable.
`----
The 'default' emacs version jumps by 8 spaces per tab stop.
Tim
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
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2010-01-29 19:39 ` change spaces indent in text mode? Teemu Likonen
2010-01-29 20:50 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-29 21:22 ` Tom Rauchenwald
2010-01-30 0:51 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-30 1:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 21:30 ` Tyler Smith
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2010-02-01 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.447.1264801240.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-06 8:11 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 0:51 ` Tim X
2010-02-07 3:31 ` Tim X
2010-02-08 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.443.1264798210.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 2:39 ` Tim X [this message]
2010-01-30 21:59 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
[not found] ` <mailman.477.1264888760.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 23:06 ` Tim X
2010-01-31 2:05 ` Suvayu Ali
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1264903543.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-02 1:32 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-06 8:21 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 7:23 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 19:28 Brendan Miller
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