Re: Menus to big in emacs

[Floyd L. Davidson]

Juhapekka Tolvanen <SNAFU.juhtolv@iki.fi.FUBAR.invalid> wrote:
>
>> When I press Tab after the : the whole line is "tabbed" from the
>> beginning...Guess thats how Tab works in emacs...
>
>Whoops! Well, forget my idea of adding tabs there.

It appears that he is in a major mode that is doing auto indent,
and the TAB key is commonly used to auto indent the current line.

The way to insert a real tab would then be to "quote" it, using
the sequence C-q TAB.

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