Re: change spaces indent in text mode?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Friday 29 January 2010 04:51 PM, Brendan Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tom Rauchenwald
> <sehnsucht.nach.unendlichkeit@quantentunnel.de>  wrote:
> > Brendan Miller<catphive@catphive.net>  writes:
> >
> > > Great, thanks!
> > >
> > > The only problem I have, is that m-i seems to indent by 8 spaces. I
> > > tried putting
> > >
> > > (setq tab-width 4) in my .emacs, but that doesn't seem to change
> > > anything... is m-i controlled by a different variable?
> >
> > Try (setq-default tab-width 4)
>
> Nope. m-i still indents by 8 spaces.
>
> I'm on emacs 23, if that matters.

For now you can try `M-x edit-tab-stops RET'. That allows you to edit 
the tab stops interactively. Hopefully this will be helpful.

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