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Re: making TAB in text major mode just work


From: Bastien
Subject: Re: making TAB in text major mode just work
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:26:01 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux)

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

>> And if you want to concentrate on what you type, why are you pressing
>> TAB when at the "This is a paragraph" line?   This line starts at the
>> beginning of the line when written normally.
>
> I think he might want the text to start at the "real" tab stop,
> indented even more.

Then using `M-i' (M-x tab-to-tab-stop) might help.

Setting `tab-always-indent' to `nil' isn't very useful here because this
variable has no effect when the point is at the beginning of the line.

Maybe this variable could accept a value of 'never, meaning that it
should never indent relatively, even when the point is at the beginning
of the line?

BTW, the docstring of `tab-always-indent' does not mention 'always, even
customizing `tab-always-indent' offers this as an option.

-- 
Bastien




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