Lo, on Friday, November 16, Michael P. Soulier did write: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 07:56:37PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Jeffrin wrote: > > > > I think you want auto-fill-mode. You may also want to look at some of > > the Emacs Lisp variables having to do with auto-formatting, such as > > sentence-end and sentence-end-double-space. > > 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.
This is a peculiarity of text-mode. VM's reply-quoting mechanism hides this, but in your original posting, the T in `This' was lined up with the `I' in the previous line. In text-mode (and derivatives, like mail-mode), tab is bound to tab-relative, which bases its tab stops on the text on the previous line. (See the emacs docs for more details.) If you want regularly-spaced tab stops, you want tab-to-tab-stop, which is bound to M-i by default. Richard
