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Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode?
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tom Rauchenwald
<sehnsucht.nach.unendlichkeit@quantentunnel.de> wrote:
> Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> writes:
>
>> Great, thanks!
>>
>> The only problem I have, is that m-i seems to indent by 8 spaces. I
>> tried putting
>>
>> (setq tab-width 4) in my .emacs, but that doesn't seem to change
>> anything... is m-i controlled by a different variable?
>
> Try (setq-default tab-width 4)

Nope. m-i still indents by 8 spaces.

I'm on emacs 23, if that matters.