Questions tagged [tabs]
Questions about the inserting/manipulating/displaying TAB characters in Emacs files. Do not use this tag for questions related to browser style "tabs".
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I am writing Fortran code in emacs but the tab key behaviour changes in F90 mode. Can I change it back?
On loading a f90 file, emacs changes to F90 mode, which changes some emacs behaviours.
When I press <tab> emacs inserts two spaces at the left margin. Now when I use the backspace key it deletes ...
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Why is a TAB character added when using kill-rectangle and yank-rectangle to insert multiple rows into an org-mode table?
I noticed an annoying behaviour when copying multiple rows (a list) from a web page into an org-mode table, following a process inspired by Is it possible to copy /paste multiple lines of text into ...
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How to set js-mode indent in Emacs >= 27.1
I have my tab width set to two spaces and this has worked fine for many years. I have just upgraded to Emacs 27.1, and now js-mode is displaying tabs as three spaces wide, ignoring my preferred ...
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Emacs converting spaces to tabs when using X11 primary selection in a terminal window
When I use emacs in a terminal window on linux, I am often getting spaces unexpectedly converted to tabs when I cut and paste using the X11 primary selection. What reproduces the problem for me is the ...
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How to NOT Auto Indent when a specific Character is inputted?
So I recently encountered a problem programming in C that whenever I enter the left parenthesis character, (, Emacs auto-idents the code.
[4 spaces here]DATA *SeqQueueOut(
I know that there is this ...
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Make tabs be visually 4 spaces long but 1 column only
I indent my code with tabs and I want my tabs to be visually 4 spaces long but to be 1 column only.
Currently with my configurations my tabs are 4 spaces long but also 4 columns long and I can't find ...
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How do I stop tab from being electric in Text mode?
When editing a plain-text document in Text mode when I press tab emacs inserts spaces until the cursor appears directly beneath the beginning of a word it finds in the line above.
I don't want it to ...
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emacs sometimes inserts tabs at weird places
Sometimes when I am typing in emacs, I type a space and emacs actually inserts a tab instead of the space. For example, while typing "Four score and seven years ago" emacs actually inserts ...
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Make tabs behavior like in other IDEs
How can I force Emacs to use tab button and TAB character in "normal stupid way"[1], like in nano or VScode or JetBrain's IDEs. All I can find is smart-tabs package and indent-tabs-mode, but ...
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How do I disable Centaur Tabs in ispell Choices buffer
I need to disable the Centaur-Tabs in the Choices buffer of ispell/flyspell. In Centaur Tab's site it says to add a hook, so I tried this:
(add-hook 'ispell-choices-buffer 'centaur-tabs-local-mode)
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Set tabs instead of spaces when programming
I have been using Emacs for a while and it has been one of my favorite editors of all time, even more so than Vim. However, I've had a problem in regards to setting tabs and spaces.
Whenever I try to ...
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Emacs text-mode as generic, 2-space-<TAB>, plaintext editor: Trouble disabling relative-indent in text-mode, or auto-triggering outline-mode
I need some help getting custom indentation behavior with my .emacs config.
In emacs text-mode / Fundamental Mode, by default a tab will take me to the location of the top line's next word (non ...
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TCL is adding different tab widths in the program
I am trying to rearrange the columns of below file
input.txt,
Contents of this file:
Name Location Purpose
---------------------------------------------
Andy US Business1
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Markdown equivalent of `org-indent-mode`?
What's the simplest way of ensuring that the text below a headline in a Markdown file is aligned with the headline? In org-mode you can accomplish this by calling org-indent-mode. Is there a similar ...
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Missing tabs on Emacs
I have been using Emacs for one week, so all of it is really new for me.
I saw that there are two types of commands in order to navigate in emacs :
- Some "tabs" on the top
- Commands like shortcuts
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Tabs on windows with custom buffers
I am new to Emacs and I am trying to set up a decent workflow for projects I already have.
What I want to do is to be able to have tabs of buffers on each window (not frame). What I want ...
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How to change shell-script-mode indentation not to use tabs?
To reproduce my issue, open your .bashrc or a .sh file and type the following:
if
while
echo
The if has no indentation. Good.
The while has the default four spaces of indentation. Good.
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Dual-language text mode using the original interpretation of tabs
Does there exist an Emacs mode that replaces the contemporary interpretation of tabs (move to 8, 16, 24, .. or a multiple of some constant) with their original typewriter interpretation (set stops at ...
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Previous indentation is discarded on newline
Let's say I have the following code:
void foo(){
~
}
I have marked point with ~.
When I press enter the electric indentation works as normal but it doesn't keep the indentation for the previous ...
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How can I make Emacs enter a TAB character when I press the TAB button, without modifying my config file?
I am looking for a command I can enter that will make the TAB key input an actual TAB character.
I'm open to anything that is temporary or that will not stomp on TAB mappings that do things other ...
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CC mode: make Tab just insert one tab or complete, no auto-indenting
I am dissatisfied with current behaviour of Emacs in CC Mode. I'm not sure if this applies to other major modes, but that's one I'm currently struggling with. Here are my problems:
When I press tab, ...
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How can I configure the tab width for TCL files
I set all tab-width parameters and indent parameters to 2, but Emacs always uses 8 for the tab space when I press the TAB key at the beginning of a line, if i opened one bracket.
How can i set the ...
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Make `tab` key insert 5 space characters in Latex Mode
In Latex mode, the tab key runs the command indent-for-tab-command
From the output of C-h k tab when in Latex mode
I rarely need to indent lines in my Latex files, and so I want to disable this ...
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Convert tabs to spaces when copying text to external applications
I use tabs in C/C++ but want to convert those tabs to spaces when copying code that I'm going to paste into an external program. However, I want the original code to retain tabs. Additionally (if ...
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Confusion about space and tab characters in Emacs
I am confused by space (SPC) and TAB characters in Emacs.
I am often using the default fundamental mode.
When I select a region and indent the lines in the region by C-u 9 C-x TAB, I intend to ...
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How to configure C-M-q and TAB key to expand pre-existing TAB characters into spaces in C/C++ files
In C and C++ files, I want to configure the mode so that any time I request indentation, that it will always expand all of the embedded TAB characters in indentation (at the start of the line, and no ...
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Does typing TAB key provide a fixed length blank?
In Fundamental mode, I type a tab following typing each number, but it seems the separator between the numbers are not the same length. I was wondering why?
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How to reveal tabs in the indentation in a cpp file?
My friend and I collaborate on a C++ project and we agree to use 4 whiltespaces for indentation. I am using Emacs and this is my indentation setting
(setq-default c-basic-offset 4)
By doing this, I ...
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How do I keep the cursor from going to the beginning of the line when there's no text on said line?
I want the cursor to stay in the same column whilst moving up and down on tabbed lines.
But instead the cursor goes to the beginning of the line if there's no text on that line.
How do I get rid of ...
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Org external link - can I indicate which browser/tab to be used
Suppose I have several browsers running at any given time.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome Canary
Chromium
Opera
Safari
How can I indicate in my org mode links
[[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][...
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Accessing the character in the line below
I am writing an Emacs Lisp function which needs to know the character directly under point in the line below, returning nil when no such character exists. I thus defined the function char-below, which ...
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org-mode setting to preserve spacing in SRC code, with verbatim latex output to pdf
Like this post, when I indent within a SRC code block in org-mode, 8 consecutive spaces are converted to a tab. Moreover, when I export to LaTeX 8 consecutive spaces are converted to tabs in the ...
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Making AUCTeX use tabs for leading indentation doesn't work
This answer says how to make AUCTeX use tabs for leading indentation. However, it doesn't work for me and I don't understand why it doesn't.
After adding the code to my init file, LaTeX-mode just ...
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css-mode: use tabs and not spaces
How do I make it so tabs are used instead of spaces when TAB is pressed? I've tried setting indent-tabs-mode to t but no dice.
On my other modes, such as php-mode and c-mode, tabs are inserted. CSS ...
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How can you make conf-mode indent with tabs?
When I open a config file that has been indented with tabs, the mode shows as (Conf[Space] WS) and pressing Tab indents with spaces, even though the rest of the file is using tabs.
How can I change ...
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Display tab characters as arrows of varying length
I would like to make tab characters ("\t") display as arrows of varying length, just like in editors such as Notepad++, gedit, Geany, etc. Here is an example with tab width set to 4 and space ...
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How to detect tabs or spaces in Emacs
By default I want all indentation (when I hit the tab key) to be 2 spaces.
However, when I am editing certain Python files (where I can not mix tabs and spaces) I would like to use whatever the ...
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Python mode indentation
Working on .py files, I know how to get emacs to use 4 spaces as an indent by default. I also know how to get it to use the tab character by default. I'd like to leave it at using spaces by default, ...
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How to account for tabs in `hl-line-range-function`?
To avoid conflicts with highlighting indentation, I made the highlight line begin after the current indentation.
This works well, except when tabs are used as leading white space.
How could the my-...
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How to indent the selected line one “tab” forward or backward [duplicate]
In a lot of text editors there is a keystroke used to move the selected lines one "tab" to the right, usually 4 whitespace or one "tab" to the left.
How can I do this in emacs? I have only found ...
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Tab key getting bounded to forward-button
Launching emacs with the -Q option (default settings) shows TAB being correctly bound to indent-for-tab-command. If I launch emacs without the -Q, TAB is always being bound to forward-button which is ...
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Smart Tab : indenting with C-u <tab> does not work (beginning of a line)
(I haven't find any answer in previous topics)
I am using Smart Tab globally, i.e. I have put the following code in my .emacs :
(require 'smart-tab)
(global-smart-tab-mode 1)
I am writing a program ...
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modify tab length for eclim-java-format
So I'm trying to use eclim with spacemacs and I have this function called eclim-java-format which reformat the text as in eclipse. The problems is that it reformats tabs as tabs and not as space and ...
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Consistent tab alignment
As an evil I choose to use tabs.
I'm having trouble getting them to work like they do in other editors.
I want displayed tabs aligned to 2 columns (with no exceptions).
I have tab-width set to 2, ...
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How to get rid of the red areas and what are they?
I have some code I copy-paste from somewhere. What is this how to get rid of them all at once?
My emacs is setup to automatically cut the orange areas, but to get rid of these?
update:
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tab and spaces shown aligned in emacs C++ mode, but not in other editors
In Emacs' C++ mode, I sometimes accidentally introduced a tab where I should use four whitespaces instead to create indentations. Adjacent lines with mixed uses of tabs and spaces for indentations are ...
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How to indent with tabs in php-mode?
I need to indent my code with (add-hook 'php-mode-hook 'php-enable-symfony2-coding-style) but using tabs for indenting (and spaces for aligning, see https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs). ...
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change python indent in a specific file
I have a piece of legacy code in Python that uses inconsistent tabs - 2 spaces in some instances and 4 in others. I have my defaults set in my .emacs file to use 4 spaces, but in this case emacs ...
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tab-width and <lang>-indent-offset difference
I've setup the indentation for tabs in Rust to be 2 whitespaces. That's what I want. And in my config it looks like this:
(add-hook 'rust-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
(...
