Hi Andy You could try this command - It worked for me. M-x edit-tab-stops
HTH -- Ramesh. On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab > key? I've tried adding: > > ;;Use spaces instead of tabs > (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) > ;;set the width to 4 > (setq-default tab-width 4) > > to the end of my ~/.emacs file but it still looks like it's using 2 > spaces (and maybe tabs and not spaces at all). > > any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Andy > > P.S. could you please cc me as I'm not on the list. > > >