From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bastian Beischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make real tabs that stay tabs Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:41:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87a7wc33od.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518680450 19988 195.159.176.226 (15 Feb 2018 07:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 07:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-Gnu-Emacs To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 15 08:40:46 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1emE9T-0003Ly-JV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:40:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emEBV-0001iA-76 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emEB0-0001hi-8h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emEAz-0001gN-Bq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::231]:41622) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emEAz-0001g5-5e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:41:53 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-yw0-x231.google.com with SMTP id f12so7772459ywb.8 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:41:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=pdwG15UYM24/KJBKgeaIJacO66DXqGp066t5Mb6xON0=; b=B7hP4W6TqglyNfbcR9VJPjWb3nsH5bBMwg1iqJhnQvd6TTh4atrLcCK2ng9+kd4zDR OgCXbNA2YUVnCBM1dNnl/SeudP4l5t6Tozkge8u2kRQTQAmQkKGjF7iyY1cj1XQMDwHt 47WHuVHFzbWek8gNjyhdzwSg3mIJZTR7HvtlbSdaFxR+voMdFChoaoGtnuhEIjlKvnY6 KEhZDHtK2wH5XOW2RB4T48aLhZfAHKe9IoaqdYb9E0FgRFhKIVy6NHBeO5+e4rUKILJg 6f4s4k6nWHtCnceSqiT+/lqgb5w/CxrYlNlLTBTGnr1QjOgwvX/rFFqCTNYsxerCWHMJ +irQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=pdwG15UYM24/KJBKgeaIJacO66DXqGp066t5Mb6xON0=; b=lpNVf5PdFIoR2KsI1ipnLaJsUZm7Hb8Ona2ngTc8iOUZQU+lMveecr9/tBn+m30T46 zck7ygCHE5sp/tvZbQEmZvVdt8hPkcc1kYC7fy3VZsb5pwJygYrj1ZdNI3DXn06cMjgy dXE8k8zPYZW1UPq//H3QVXbANfvZYJNRLXodNGLqNU5hTxhU8hmjbZxLVXDH3R+JzfMj 2uLX5xSWm+v11fTMHUMw69O3q4OqLABMxa3FWhlfAnlc1VL/AW/l1XG54brr/abO5RAx NTnm60Fv/e+rtzAh69uI7Adizq2QvUEtcTzwcB8QZvyR5jqaVIC0jt/8UAFW4MC/mwSK 2J9w== X-Gm-Message-State: APf1xPDrHPpAcdIoiFqUmbG+c7ipf5bnTzy7Fw0a6xJJ+B7y+n/j4Kiw DhvImn1VqrHYxKaH/00WoDmdoo0TYp1Irl6PPng= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x225KOoq4Ea9G+LfRHyKCRq7BNWTnYqKTyMylj+rG+EqPRb7fKTWZDAi6ggDm1NS9+uCPnNn/yiY/29iklSDmRN0= X-Received: by 10.129.175.76 with SMTP id x12mr1302636ywj.67.1518680512435; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:41:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.129.156.21 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:41:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87a7wc33od.fsf@local.lan> X-Google-Sender-Auth: qXaJ-EBHihMvJEvvlic2qlbeFJw X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c05::231 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116016 Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I know how to insert tabs in emacs I thought. > > C-q > > And sure enough the cursor jumps like a tab was inserted. > > So insert 2 or three but OOPS If I decide to back one out with > backspace I'm backing by spaces not by tabs. > > Seems like if I take care to insert a real tab then it ought to act > like a real tab when I backspace over it too. > > Recently I found myself correcting an rsnapshot.conf file where things > MUST be separated by tabs.. one way to test is to back over what is > there and see if your cursor jumps a tabs worth. Do you know about "whitespace-mode"? It will highlight tabs with a different face (at least if you configure it to), so you don't need to fallback to such workarounds. It has many other nice features as well. > But apparently that > cannot be done with emacs. > > I seem to recall being able to do that in the past. > > Can someone explain this to me. > > > >