Re: emacs and tab stops

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: tano <gaetanoortisi@yahoo.it>
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:14:26 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> I used to run emacs always in fundamental mode, because I do not
> like automatic indentation, so I put a line in my .emacs file
> like (setq auto-mode-alist nil) to leave my tab stop every 8 chars.
> However with new versions of emacs seems that things are changed.
> Even if I run fundamental mode, tab stops does not follow the standard
> indentation every 8 chars, but goes in the first char after a space
> on the previous line, for example.
> How can I set up things so that it work as I want?

What does "C-h c TAB" display?

And what version of Emacs is that?