From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need Help: insert tab(8 characters) for every tabstroke Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 16:45:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312847146 12646 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2011 23:45:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 23:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: amit mehta Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 09 01:45:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QqZVr-0000jQ-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:45:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51758 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqZVl-0005wK-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:45:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqZVg-0005wF-NB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:45:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqZVf-0003N1-Qq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from p3plsmtpa07-09.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([173.201.192.238]:53426) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqZVf-0003Ml-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 27057 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2011 23:45:24 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.161.41) by p3plsmtpa07-09.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (173.201.192.238) with ESMTP; 08 Aug 2011 23:45:24 -0000 Original-Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so5322008fxg.0 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.21.7 with SMTP id h7mr6599413fab.98.1312847122071; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.83.194 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 16:45:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 173.201.192.238 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81910 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:05 AM, amit mehta 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 . this is overkill. Try (setq tab-always-indent nil) -PJ