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Re: set the coding of emacs24.3


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: set the coding of emacs24.3
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:44:10 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>> question 2: how to set the width of 'tab'
>   M-x set-variable RET tab-width RET N RET
> where N is the width.

Note that this is very rarely what users really want.  Usually they want
to set the width of spacing inserted when hitting the TAB *key* (whereas
the above controls the displayed width of TAB *characters*).


        Stefan




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