From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "xz" <zhang.xi.cn@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: How to set tab to be 4 (!) spaces for indention?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:13:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICIEBBECAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8b3fe3d-c3b8-47aa-9014-b6c5c33b9e65@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
> It's so annoooooooooooooying that the default indention is only 2
> spaces.
> I googled a lot but cannot change this.
> For example, I tried
> (setq default-tab-width 4)
> in the .emacs file.
> But it don't change nothing!
> How can I make the indention to be 4 spaces?
Does this help?
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/IndentationBasics
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TabStopList
You can also read the Emacs manual. Try `i' in the manual, enter `tab' and
hit the TAB key to see manual sections that are pertinent.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-18 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-18 19:40 How to set tab to be 4 (!) spaces for indention? xz
2007-12-18 20:10 ` Tyler Smith
2007-12-18 20:13 ` Drew Adams [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICIEBBECAA.drew.adams@oracle.com \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=zhang.xi.cn@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.