From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to set tab to be 4 (!) spaces for indention? Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:40:09 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: 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 1198006898 24622 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2007 19:41:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:41:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 18 20:41:50 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 1J4iJv-0006Sh-Jf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:41:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4iJc-0005ie-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:41:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.7.13.133 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1198006810 478 127.0.0.1 (18 Dec 2007 19:40:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.7.13.133; posting-account=fxB97woAAABg6Wi3tmJV7LZi5ZS_5kQW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154756 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:50182 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?