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Re: Sping of characters in TAB
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Sping of characters in TAB |
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Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:18:32 -0500 |
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:20:13 -0700
> From: don fisher <hdf3@comcast.net>
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> I just upgraded "?" my system to Ubuntu 10.10. The character spacing for
> TAB characters appears to by 1/2 the size of printed characters. So one
> must press the space bar 8 times to move 4 characters.
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> I do not know how I achieved this, or how to correct it. I would like
> TAB key to advance 4 actual characters.
What's the value of tab-width? The default is 8, but maybe some
site-local files on Ubuntu 10.10 modify that. Try "emacs -Q" to see
if that's the reason.