Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Does anyone know how to manage tabs properly in text mode? I hit the > tab in various places, and I get different indents every time. Also, > sometimes I seem to get an auto-indent effect when the line wraps, and > sometimes I don't. > > This indent is huge. I hit tab once. At another time I might > get 4 spaces instead of eight. I want 4 consistently, and I > thought that was what I set in my .emacs file. Note the > auto-indent here.
It depends what mode you're in. Different modes may treat tabs quite differently. In general, the variable "tab-width" controls the distance from one tab stop to the next. Note that it is always buffer-local, so if you want it to be global, you'll have to make a function that sets it and add that function to find-file-hooks, like this: (add-hook 'find-file-hooks (function (lambda () (setq tab-width 4)))) Craig
