Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: setting tabs in freemacs Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 90 01:48:18 GMT References: <19460@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 22 In-reply-to: baileyc@boulder.Colorado.EDU's message of 9 Apr 90 21:00:55 GMT In article <19460@boulder.Colorado.EDU> baileyc@boulder.Colorado.EDU (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) writes: How do I set the default tabs for Freemacs to 4 spaces instead of 8??? I am not a very experiences emacs user, so I need it pretty step by step. You could mean two things by this: the way tabs are presented on screen, or the way C mode indents. For the former, use M-x edit-options to change F-tab-columns. For the latter, I stupidly didn't make it a variable. First you have to get C-mode loaded by loading any C file. Then you need to change Ctabs using M-x ef Ctabs. Make it look like this: Name:Ctabs Some stuff here I can't remember (the documentation) [*] [*] The important part is the four spaces between the [*]'s. -russ -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems