From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and tab stops Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:53:03 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221108829 17075 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2008 04:53:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:53:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 06:54:45 2008 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 1KdeCa-0005gX-IB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:54:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58040 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeBa-0003AG-Cm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeBF-00039v-Al for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeBD-00039Y-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57848 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeBD-00039V-Dg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59852 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KdeBC-0007fH-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeB7-00082s-1q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:53:13 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:53:13 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:53:13 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:57410 Archived-At: tano wrote: > Hello, > I used to run emacs always in fundamental mode, because I do not > like automatic indentation, so I put a line in my .emacs file > like (setq auto-mode-alist nil) to leave my tab stop every 8 chars. > However with new versions of emacs seems that things are changed. > Even if I run fundamental mode, tab stops does not follow the standard > indentation every 8 chars, but goes in the first char after a space > on the previous line, for example. > How can I set up things so that it work as I want? > The previous answer talk me about setting tab stops, but > looking at the tab stop variable all seems to be set correctly, > every 8 chars, but however I do not get what I want.. 1. In Fundamental mode: C-h k TAB 2. In *Help* buffer: follow the link for indent-line-function 3. C-h f indent-relative (I don't know why this isn't a link) That suggests to me: (setq indent-line-function 'tab-to-tab-stop) That by itself may disable automatic indentation, so you can leave auto-mode-alist alone and get all the other benefits of the various major modes. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA