From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to set tab to be 4 (!) spaces for indention? Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:13:56 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198008935 32111 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2007 20:15:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:15:35 +0000 (UTC) To: "xz" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 18 21:15:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J4iqu-0005g2-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:15:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4iqb-0004ZG-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J4iqJ-0004XX-8D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:15:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J4iqH-0004Uj-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:15:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4iqH-0004UI-Cz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:15:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J4iqH-0002HM-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:15:05 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lBIKExVi000509; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:14:59 -0700 Original-Received: from rcsmt251.oracle.com (rcsmt251.oracle.com [148.87.90.196]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lBIKEvUI017053; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:14:58 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-81-149.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3451333751198008831; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:13:51 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50186 Archived-At: > 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.