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Re: Unable to Set Tab Width
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Unable to Set Tab Width |
Date: |
21 Mar 2003 21:33:52 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Chris <matrix2468REMOVETHISTOREPLY@cox.net> writes:
> Despite countless efforts, I cannot set the tab width
> in emacs to 2 spaces instead of 4.
>
> >uname -a
> HP-UX host B.11.00 U 9000/785 2007718834 unlimited-user license
>
> >/usr/local/bin/emacs-21.2.1
> >cat .emacs
> (setq default-tab-width 2)
>
> I thought the above command would set the tab width to 2,
> but it is stuck at 4!
I have this:
(custom-set-variables
'(indent-tabs-mode nil)
'(inhibit-c-tab-always-indent nil)
'(tab-stop 4 t)
'(tab-stop-list (quote (4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64)))
'(tab-width 4)
'(c-tab-always-indent nil)
)
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook '(lambda () (set-variable 'tab-width 8)))
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