Re: tab-width 4 in markdown major mode

[Frank Hrebabetzky]

On 21.04.21 19:53, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, you are right. What i tried was C-h tab-width, which tells value 
4 and original value 8, and contains a link "customize". This leads to 
the customization window with an entry mask, but the actual value there 
is 8. So I don't know how to set the effective value 4 to 8.

--
Frank