From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: trouble with tabs [Re: Trouble with global-set-key to map meta-g with 'goto-line] Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:41:08 -0400 Organization: Symantec Message-ID: References: <874q0oqf2v.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145677229 10945 80.91.229.2 (22 Apr 2006 03:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 22 05:40:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FX8yw-0006Hk-KC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FX8yw-0002pq-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:40:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:41:08 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.234.87 Original-X-Trace: sv3-zEyJ7Qfzkt64UJZryJEGM7xi4Rnb+LFfTP0MhM6Ww11nNQnBjwk+rQ/yOyy9aaF5v1bndPpNammnDUq!7e0HgLiOjWuuFrpPk/hnkmM6e2dTht+3XlvWJN+BEwDJxynQ5Kd1F+0N3a6QTpjRL9H+DvhaTKLH!5kAZha+YsXvPJ4sPbZs2/oEv4i3ao8E0HQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138949 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:34568 Archived-At: In article , Miles Bader wrote: > Sven Urbanski writes: > > No, it uses 8. The problem is the combination of a character (in this > > example a space) and a tab. That combo produces a tab which is only 7 chars > > long (because the space is also taken into account). > > Why is there a problem? Stefan's (space-only) text took that effect into > account, so in his post things line up perfectly. > > Of course in the _followups_ to Stefan's post, which quote the whole > mess, things aren't lined up correctly (because the extra quotation > prefix shifts his space-space only text, but not the preceeding > tab-using text) ... but that's presumably not what Barry was complaining > about. > > To be honest I don't know what Barry was complaining about, unless it's > perhaps "This damn MUA uses non-fixed-width fonts!" That's a complaint > I also have with e.g. gmail, but surely the answer is "fix the MUA." I'm using MT-Newswatcher, and I have it set to display in a fixed-width font (Monaco 10). I've figured out the problem. It displays TAB as a single space, rather than indenting to a tab stop. I had no idea that the single line of code was indented with a tab rather than a space -- I had to cut and paste from MT-NW to Emacs to see this. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***