Emacs auto-modes and tabs

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, at 4:12pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>> Is there some way to globally tell Emacs to leave my freaking
>> [Tab] key alone, while leaving everything else working the way it is?
> 
> Hmmm, I have no idea.  I've never wanted to actually override the
> contextual definition of the [TAB] key.  I rather like having it line 
> everything up in perl/shell/C mode, etc.

  If it used tabs to do the aligning, I wouldn't mind so much.  But it uses
spaces, and at non-standard tab stops!  Grrrr.  If I wanted spaces, I'd hit
the bloody spacebar.  I want my [Tab] key to insert a TAB character, and I
want my tab stops to be every eight columns, the way God intended for them
to be.  :-)

> I wouldn't mind learning a new trick though, since now that I've stated
> publicly that I've never needed this, I'll need it tomorrow :)

  It does seem to work that way, doesn't it?

> I'll bet you a beer though, the Kevin Clark is the first person with the
> correct answer ;)

  If it was Perl, I would have no doubt.  But for Emacs?  You're on.  ;-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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