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Re: Inconsistent Indentation
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Inconsistent Indentation |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:17:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Wm. G. McGrath <wgm@telus.net> writes:
> I'm bewildered by my inability to get emacs 20.7.1 to insert white
> space properly at the start of a paragraph in
> paragraph-indent-text-mode with auto-fill. This is such a small
> thing for a text editor to be so frustrating.
>
> C-q TAB will sometimes insert 4 spaces, sometimes a TAB (8 spaces)
> and at others 11 and even more.
Hm. C-q TAB should always insert one tab character, and this tab
character looks like a varying number of spaces. For example, if you
have a line containing "a TAB b" and another line with "c d TAB e",
then it will look like this:
a b
cd e
As you can see, the first tab "looks like" seven spaces, whereas the
second tab "looks like" five spaces.
> TAB will sometimes insert 4 spaces, sometimes 6, sometimes 8 and so
> on.
By default, TAB will advance to the next space in the line above.
This makes it easy to align things.
Here is an example line.
^ ^ ^ ^
The "^" characters show the spots where TAB moves to.
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