"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > Or you can: > > > > (setq-default tab-width 4) > > I've found that this isn't always enough. If you want a real tab, you > usually have to get emacs to call the tab-to-tab-stop function, which > means that you also need to reset your tab stops. I've found that > rebinding tab to call tab-to-tab-stop, and setting the tab-stop list > to > > '(4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80) > > can help get what I'm really after, expecially in text > mode. Personally I find the default indenting in Emacs just plain > broken. Why the hell can't tab just do what it's told?
Because tabs in general are broken. I prefer what emacs does. Read this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
