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From: werner@sparcserver.mc.ab.com (tim werner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Gnu emacs-19.28 and FreeBSD-2.0R
Date: 17 Jan 1995 12:34:23 GMT
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To: shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon)
In-reply-to: shaman@mv.mv.com's message of Thu, 12 Jan 1995 19:56:44 GMT
>Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.emacs.help
>From: shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon)
>Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 19:56:44 GMT
>
>I cannot get the tab key to insert a tab. The only thing that I've gotten
>to work is "^qTAB" (ie. quoted tab).
Use "C-h v indent-tabs-mode". Documentation says "*Indentation can
insert tabs if this is non-nil". Probably in your site-start.el or your
own .emacs, this is set to nil, which is really better except for
makefiles. I have this to make tabs insert as tabs for makefiles:
;; Use spaces instead of tabs when indenting, except for makefiles
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
(or (assoc "[Mm]akefile.*\\'" auto-mode-alist)
(setq auto-mode-alist
(cons '("[Mm]akefile.*\\'" . makefile-mode) auto-mode-alist)))
(or (assoc ".*make_rules\\'" auto-mode-alist)
(setq auto-mode-alist
(cons '(".*make_rules\\'" . makefile-mode) auto-mode-alist)))
(setq makefile-mode-hook (function (lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode t))))
I you insist on putting ugly tab characters into your files, you should
be able to put "(setq indent-tabs-mode t)" in .emacs.
good luck,
tw
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