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From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
Subject: Re: an annoying indentation
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:49:38 -0400
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Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> On Jun 12, 2007, at 17:13, Leo wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Anyone else find the following annoying?
>>
>> *** heading 1
>> - item 1
>> - item 2
>>
>> Now hit tabwith cursor right before '-', it becomes,
>>
>> *** heading 1
>>     - item 1
>>       - item 2
>
> The question I have is: why would you press TAB if not to indent?
>
> - Carsten
>
>>

Maybe the OP is used to using TAB to format text, as in a C or Java program.
TAB just 'does the right thing' in cc-mode (I think it is), so to some people
it becomes automatic to use TAB to keep the document looking good.

Not a good idea in this case, of course!

Dave