From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ari King Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Inconsistent Indenting/Spacing Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:47:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357257017 19324 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2013 23:50:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 23:50:17 +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 04 00:50:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TquYN-0002vm-Fy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:50:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TquY8-0006lH-96 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:50:12 -0500 X-Received: by 10.224.205.65 with SMTP id fp1mr28657719qab.4.1357256854135; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:47:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.49.24.164 with SMTP id v4mr8510901qef.6.1357256854074; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:47:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!t8no816762qaj.0!news-out.google.com!k2ni4895qap.0!nntp.google.com!p13no821476qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.14.163.201; posting-account=AgcriAoAAAALFgWz3dMlnLI9LvRPraOd Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.14.163.201 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:47:34 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196115 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88423 Archived-At: Hi, Does anyone know why when I press the "tab" key more then once, the subsequently inserted spaces increase two fold? For example, if I press "tab" twice I will get 6 (2 + 4) rather than 4 (2 + 2) spaces. I'm using Emacs 24 on Ubuntu 12.10 and I've added the following to my init.el (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) (setq-default tab-width 2) Thanks. -Ari