From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: amit mehta <gmate.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need Help: insert tab(8 characters) for every tabstroke
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 16:45:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsNXT=oE4Q6+uPMzmbHcrSw+zpLdhqf0mDAgnDKjJBg-gm9dg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOUxTKPGr3=9AX88LCSTYbP0EJkzSDnVf6PoZfPbiLb_-DKp1A@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:05 AM, amit mehta <gmate.amit@gmail.com> wrote:
> but this doesn't work(i mean, hitting the TAB key on my keyboard doesn't
> move forward the cursor to 8 columns to the right), so every time i need a TAB,
> I've to use C-q <tab>. this is overkill.
Try (setq tab-always-indent nil)
-PJ
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-08 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-08 14:05 Need Help: insert tab(8 characters) for every tabstroke amit mehta
2011-08-08 21:41 ` Jai Dayal
2011-08-09 4:56 ` amit mehta
2011-08-08 23:45 ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
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