Re: tab-width 4 in markdown major mode

[Philip Kaludercic]

Frank Hrebabetzky <hreba@t-online.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have been accepting over the years that TAB hardly ever means "go to
> the next tabulator stop", but is used for something different in
> nearly each major mode. But I am happy with M-i and tab-width 8, which
> behave the same way in any mode I have been using so far.
>
> Now I used the markdown mode for the first time and it behaves as if
> tab-width was 4. I checked the variable value, and it is 8. Can
> somebody tell me how to get this right?

Are you sure, taking a look at the definition of markdown-mode

https://github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode/blob/master/markdown-mode.el#L9585

it seems to explicitly set the tab-width to 4.

-- 
        Philip K.