Re: Customizing tab stops

[poppyer]

Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> writes:

: kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:
:
:> In a Fundamental-mode buffer, inserting a tab causes the cursor to
:> jump to the next tab stop.  By default these tab stops are at
:> positions 8, 16, 24, etc.  I would like to customize these spacings
:> for a particular buffer.
:>
:> I thought that the variable tab-stop-list would do the trick.  So
:> I made it local to the buffer, and used the command edit-tab-stops
:> to edit its value.  Originally its value was the default
:>
:> (8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88 96 104 112 120)
:>
:> and I changed it to
:>
:> (16 27 58 68)
:>
:> ...but the display of the buffer was not affected; i.e. the
:> tab-separated fields in the buffer remained at the default tab
:> stops.
:>
:> I realize that the customized local value of tab-stop-list does
:> affect the behavior of the tab-to-tab-stop command in this buffer,
:> but this is not what I'm interested in.  I want to affect how Emacs
:> *displays* the text that follows a tab.
:>
:> Is there a way to customize such display? 

setq default-tab-width will do part of the job, but I don't know if it
will suit your needs, because your tab-stops are uneven.

poppyer