Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU emacs beginner question. Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 14:01:33 GMT References: <1989Oct25.162536.4854@cec1.wustl.edu> <8970003@hpfcso.HP.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 17 In-reply-to: jka@hpfcso.HP.COM's message of 26 Oct 89 18:35:45 GMT In article <8970003@hpfcso.HP.COM> jka@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jay Adams) writes: 1) Is there a way to force EMACS not to make backups? (eg. file~) Try (setq make-backup-files nil). 2) Is there a way to set the number of spaces for a tab? Not that I'm aware of. Having it set to anything but 8 seems odd, if for no other reason than that most other software assumes that relationship. If you're worried about indenting your source code by different amounts, use one of the many language-specific modes (C, C++, FORTRAN, Lisp, Ada, Pascal, ...). Most bind the TAB key to re-indent the current line according to the current context. Relative indentation between blocks is usually settable by a mode-specific variable. -- Skip Montanaro (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)