tab and space

tab and space

[cyrus]

Hi,

When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.

Thanks

Re: tab and space

[Benjamin Rutt]

"cyrus" <cyrus@cyrus.com> writes:

> When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
> regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
> notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.

Try (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil).  Then, your future
emacs-created files will use only spaces to indent, and there's no
issue of how another editors interprets a tab, since there shouldn't
be any TAB characters in your documents anymore.  Although I have no
idea why you'd ever want to use another editor. :)
-- 
Benjamin

Re: tab and space

[Kai Großjohann]

"cyrus" <cyrus@cyrus.com> writes:

> When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
> regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
> notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.

By default, Emacs assumes that tab characters are eight columns
wide.  You can frob the variable tab-width to change this.  So by
default, a followed by TAB followed by b is shown as follows:

a       b

And if you set tab-width to 4, the same three characters are shown
like this:

a   b

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