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RE: Understanding Emacs and Tabs
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Bingham, Jay |
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RE: Understanding Emacs and Tabs |
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Mon, 19 May 2003 14:49:29 -0500 |
On: Monday, May 19, 2003 11:38 AM Kai Großjohann wrote:
>Oh, there's someone being very careful. I hope I can stand a healthy
>dose of criticism :-) Point taken, I hope.
Yes, I was trying not to start a running battle, but the comment was true, I
really have learned a lot from you.
>I think you meant to say disabled. The default for indent-tabs-mode
>is to be enabled.
I said what I meant to say, but my statement was incorrect due to a lack of
comprehension on my part.
>Okay, so the full story is this: in the default Emacs configuration,
>M-i will insert a tab up to the 120th column in a line. And this is
>very close to always.
>
>And there are two variables that come into play: the variable
>indent-tabs-mode and the variable tab-stop-list.
Now I understand. And now that I realize that you are talking about a
variable, not a mode (when I saw the -mode at the end of the name I just jumped
to the conclusion that indent-tabs-mode was a function that enabled a "mode"),
I see that I do indeed have indent-tabs-mode set to t in my environment and
that my tab-stop-list's value is a list of numbers that ends at 120.
>Yeah, maybe I'm trying to be too exact. Maybe an introduction doesn't
>need to be so exact. It was just a knee-jerk reaction on my side --
>when somebody says `always' I'll answer, `but not when the full moon
>shines through the window and you're sitting with your back to the
>door'.
>
>It's probably silly. I'm sorry.
Apology accepted, although it was not necessary and I am glad that you had a
knee-jerk reaction because once again you have enlightened me.
Thanks,
-_
J_)
C_)ingham
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- Re: Understanding Emacs and Tabs, (continued)
RE: Understanding Emacs and Tabs, Bingham, Jay, 2003/05/16
Re: Understanding Emacs and Tabs, Paul D. Smith, 2003/05/16
Re: Understanding Emacs and Tabs, Kai Großjohann, 2003/05/17
RE: Understanding Emacs and Tabs, Bingham, Jay, 2003/05/19
RE: Understanding Emacs and Tabs,
Bingham, Jay <=