Re: change spaces indent in text mode?

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi,

On Friday 29 January 2010 11:39 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2010-01-29 11:28 (-0800), Brendan Miller wrote:
>
> > When I hit tab in text mode, it indents by 5 spaces. How do I change
> > that? Setting tab-width doesn't seem to do the right thing.
>
> TAB key in text-mode indents to the columns of previous line's words. If
> you want to go to next tab stop, as defined in tab-stop-list variable,
> use M-i. For example, first write a line like this:
>
>      Here     are    some                     words.
>
> Then press TAB key a couple of times on the next line. Then go to the
> beginning of line and press M-i a couple of times. You should see the
> difference.

Maybe this is a little off-topic, but is their anyway to have that 
behaviour of the TAB key with source code, say C++ or Python? I would 
like to align various similar consecutive lines to make them easy to 
read. Thanks for any suggestions.

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Suvayu

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