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- From: will@bigsky.Aero.ORG (Willis Elias)
- Subject: Setting default TAB width?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.225753.20549@speedy.aero.org>
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- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:57:53 GMT
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- I'm an emacs novice and have a pretty simple question. I'm using GNU
- emacs (version?) on a Sun SparcStation. I'd like to know how I can set
- the TAB character "width" to 4 spaces. I believe it defaults to 8
- spaces when in text-mode. Although Lisp is totally foreign to me, I
- have hacked-around in my .emacs file and tried the following:
-
- (setq c-tab-always-indent nil)
- (setq tab-width 4)
-
- This first attempt doesn't seem to do anything. So I tried the
- following:
-
- (global-set-key " " (quote tab-to-tab-stop))
- (edit-tab-stops)
-
- This does the job, but in a really lame way: If I invoke emacs from an
- X-Window without any file name argument, emacs starts up with the
- edit-tab-stops buffer. I can then manually modify the tab stops, do a
- C-c C-c to save the new tab stops, and start grabbing files and
- editting away with the new tab stops in effect. If I invoke emacs from
- an X-Window _with_ a file name argument, emacs loads the named file
- into the current buffer on "top" of the edit-tab-stops buffer. So I
- could change buffers to the tab stops buffer, modify tab stops, switch
- buffers, edit file, etc...
- This *works* but there must be a better, more automated way (something
- like the first attempt maybe?).
-
- Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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