Re: tab and space

[Kai Großjohann]

"cyrus" <cyrus@cyrus.com> writes:

> When I open an emacs created file in notepad I see more spaces for tab and
> regular space. How can I set these to be the same as what you'd see in
> notepad? I have looked at every variable and can't find out.

By default, Emacs assumes that tab characters are eight columns
wide.  You can frob the variable tab-width to change this.  So by
default, a followed by TAB followed by b is shown as follows:

a       b

And if you set tab-width to 4, the same three characters are shown
like this:

a   b

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