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Re: Indentation.
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don provan |
Subject: |
Re: Indentation. |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:54:45 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
jmg3000@gmail.com writes:
> (setq-default tab-width 4)
>
> should be just what you want.
Whoa! The original question quite correctly asked for four *space*
indentation. Changing the tab width to some non-standard value is
irrelevant, just typical confusion between the tab character in the
file (which, if other than 8 characters, can conflict with other
utilities) and the indent command that moves lines according to a
visual intentation scheme that has nothing at all to do with the tab
setting.
Also, there's no reason to suggest setting this value *globally*.
Let's just teach him to set it in the buffers he wants this special
indentation in: maybe as he gets used to normal "smart" indentation in
other modes, he'll loosen up about how he thinks indentation should
work.
-don