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gunnihinn

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From: Torreón, Mexico

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 81

Emacs text mode indent trouble

I use Emacs for writing a lot of plain text (i.e. .txt files) and I'm having a bit of trouble with the text-mode default indent style.

What I want is pretty simple: Tabs should be 2 characters long (but still tabs, not spaces) and inserted whenever I press Tab, regardless of where in the text I am.

I've had no luck in figuring out how to get this behaviour though. I've edited the edit-tab-stops variable to what I want, but the Tab key still seems to be bound to some other command, and tab-stops seems to insert spaces anyway. Any other ideas?

sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: Emacs text mode indent trouble

This page has a lot of information: http://www.pement.org/emacs_tabs.htm

gunnihinn

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From: Torreón, Mexico

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 81

Re: Emacs text mode indent trouble

Brilliant, thanks so much!

I bound Tab to tab-to-tab-stop and added a text-mode-hook that defines tab-stop-list to what I want, works like a charm.