From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: change spaces indent in text mode? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:28:17 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264793506 15062 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2010 19:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:31:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 20:31:43 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NawZB-0001a6-Rb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:31:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NawZA-0004FH-HX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NawYo-0004F8-Jh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NawYk-0004En-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50128 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NawYk-0004Ek-Co for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:46430) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NawYP-0001jQ-KP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-px0-f192.google.com ([209.85.216.192]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NawWA-00058y-Hl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: by pxi30 with SMTP id 30so1681663pxi.14 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:28:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.142.7.39 with SMTP id 39mr876748wfg.12.1264793297994; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:28:17 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71564 Archived-At: When I hit tab in text mode, it indents by 5 spaces. How do I change that? Setting tab-width doesn't seem to do the right thing. To be clear, although I indent with the tab key, I'm not using tab characters. I don't use tab characters anywhere. Brendan