From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Tony Vitonis" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Tabs (yikes) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:24:21 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048004994 31540 80.91.224.249 (18 Mar 2003 16:29:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:29:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 17:29:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18vJvS-0007yw-00 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:26:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vJuL-0003fG-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:25:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:24:26 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.55.83.158 Original-X-Trace: sv3-ikb8sDlG68S6C7K6OlVccvMBAYg54mjBiop8IGhVXl1fJuNni5cbA0o01r0FijiC8Gxw4i7f9lLzJCc!PiXC2By74+T2hgev15EhDsuXTD2cPz7IQpLcRzWlf1z4jtlBN/TlDOmGQnk+ Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111182 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7682 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7682 Hi. I'm a newbie having a tough time getting tabs to work the way I want in Emacs. (From the searches I've done, I'm not alone in this regard. :)) My problem is this: In text mode, I want the Tab key to move to the next default-tab-width stop, no matter what the context. I've been able to do it with these options: (define-key text-mode-map [tab] 'tab-to-tab-stop) (setq tab-stop-list '(3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 39 42 45 48 51 54 57 60 63 66 69 72 75 78)) But I can *not* seem to find a way to make it happen using my default-tab-width, which I've specified this way: (setq default-tab-width 3) Is there any way to make this happen without typing in the long dreary list of tab stops? Thanks very much.