Steinar Bang <[email protected]> writes:

> When I press TAB to toggle display of child elements in org files I
> occasionally get the error message:
>  The error was: (error "Tab width in Org files must be 8, not 4.  Please 
> adjust your ‘tab-width’ settings for Org mode")
>  ...
> Message says to report this error, so I did.
> BTW: (tab-width as checked with 'C-h v tab-width RET' was 4

Thanks for reporting!
Note that the error has been downgraded to warning in Org 9.7.29
In any case, Org mode expects tab-width to use the default value of
8. This is part of the syntax. Something in your setup is changing this
default. Any idea what it could be? (A suspect we do know about is
editorconfig-mode)

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