From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode? Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:04:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wrz0ittg.fsf@mithlond.arda> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265046055 13524 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2010 17:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 01 18:40:53 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 1Nc0GU-0003PB-J9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc0GT-0003Qq-V8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe17.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8hKLyMMX1TyEdEk8dKiariIasBM= Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:04:24 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176535 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:71605 Archived-At: >> Here are some words. >> >> Then press TAB key a couple of times on the next line. Then go to the >> beginning of line and press M-i a couple of times. You should see the >> difference. > Maybe this is a little off-topic, but is their anyway to have that behaviour > of the TAB key with source code, say C++ or Python? You can make the TAB key do whatever you want, by rebinding it to some other command. The command that does the above is called `indent-relative'. Stefan