On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:16:26AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Romain Francoise wrote:
> >Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>emacs21 correctly preserves the tab, while emacs-snapshot converts it
> >>to spaces.
> >
> >There is no tab in the initial file, so a more accurate way to put it is
> >"emacs21 inserts a tab, and emacs-snapshot inserts spaces". Whether or
> >not that is a bug, I don't know... (tab-width is 8 by default)
>
> It is a misunderstanding that pressing TAB inserts a tab character in
> Emacs; rather, that key runs the command indent-for-tab-command which
> in turn calls the function pointed to by indent-line-function. See
> section 31.3.1 of the Emacs Manual (in emacs-snapshot). If you want
> to insert a tab character, you should press C-q TAB.
>...
No, the bug seems to be different from what you are thinking.
If I press TAB in at the beginning of the first line of test-before,
Emacs correctly inserts a TAB.
But this doesn't work in the line where I observe the problem.
> Cheers,
>
> Sven
cu
Adrian
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