From: Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode?
Date: 6 Feb 2010 08:11:17 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhmq915.1qf.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.447.1264801240.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Fri, 2010-01-29, Tom Rauchenwald wrote:
> Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> writes:
>
>> Great, thanks!
>>
>> The only problem I have, is that m-i seems to indent by 8 spaces. I
>> tried putting
>>
>> (setq tab-width 4) in my .emacs, but that doesn't seem to change
>> anything... is m-i controlled by a different variable?
>
> Try (setq-default tab-width 4)
A few people have suggested this. Note that this redefines the
appearance *in your Emacs* of the TAB character and the text as a
whole. It will look wrong in any other program and to any other reader
who hasn't reconfigured his tools in the same way.
I have the misfortune of working with source code where half of it
uses this configuration and half doesn't. It's pure pain; please
don't do it unless you *know* noone but you will ever have to read
this text.
/Jorgen
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// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
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2010-01-29 19:39 ` change spaces indent in text mode? Teemu Likonen
2010-01-29 20:50 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-29 21:22 ` Tom Rauchenwald
2010-01-30 0:51 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-30 1:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 21:30 ` Tyler Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.444.1264800653.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.447.1264801240.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-06 8:11 ` Jorgen Grahn [this message]
2010-02-07 0:51 ` Tim X
2010-02-07 3:31 ` Tim X
2010-02-08 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.443.1264798210.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 2:39 ` Tim X
2010-01-30 21:59 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
[not found] ` <mailman.477.1264888760.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 23:06 ` Tim X
2010-01-31 2:05 ` Suvayu Ali
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1264903543.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-02 1:32 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-06 8:21 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 7:23 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 19:28 Brendan Miller
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