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Re: TAB character
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Benjamin Rutt |
Subject: |
Re: TAB character |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:56:42 -0500 |
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Stirling Olson <seo@foraker.com> writes:
> How can I make the TAB key just enter a TAB character and never have
> that TAB character turn into spaces?
>
> While editing .java files and other files hitting the TAB key seems to
> follow some indenting conventions that I don't understand and don't
> prefer. It often enters spaces and sometimes won't even let me enter a
> further tab. I just want to have a tab character entered in the buffer
> when I hit TAB and when I backspace or delete a tab in the buffer I
> don't want it to turn into spaces.
In this case, I think you want to pick a number (like 4) that you want
to use for the distance between your tab stops.
Then, I believe you need to synchronize several variables based off of
that number:
(add-hook 'java-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(setq tab-width 4)
(setq tab-stop-list '(4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40)
(setq c-basic-offset 4))))
Future TAB presses should indent your code only to the tab stop list,
and therefore no spaces will be inserted.
--
Benjamin
- TAB character, Stirling Olson, 2002/11/20
- Re: TAB character,
Benjamin Rutt <=