Re: emacs and tab stops

[Gareth Rees]

tano wrote:
> 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.

This is because the TAB key is now bound to the function 
`indent-for-tab-command'.  (When did this change? I don't see anything 
in NEWS about it.)

The command you are looking for is `tab-to-tab-stop', which you can run 
by typing M-i, or you can bind it to the TAB key with something like

(global-set-key (kbd "TAB") #'tab-to-tab-stop)

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Gareth Rees