How to set tab-width to 4 spaces in emacs ??

[Thomas Weholt]

Eh .. after messing around with my .emacs-file I've had some problems with
auto-indention editing python-code so I'll probably remove the entry in
.emacs.
I'd still like to have indent set to 4 spaces, not 8, but working code is
nice too ;->

Thanks for the tip though.

Thomas


"Lee Morgan" <unknown at lee-morgan.net> wrote in message
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> "Thomas Weholt" <t-weh at online.no> writes:
>
> > Trying to set the tab-width in emacs to 4 spaces without luck. Using
> > Mandrake 8.1 ( great distro btw, python 2.1.1, postgresql 7.1.3 etc. try
it
> > now !)
> >
> > tried :
> >
> > # tab-width: 4
> >  etc. but no go.
> >
> > Any hints ???
> >
>
> I think (setq tab-width 4) is correct, although isnt it both a global and
buffer
> variable(or is it a mode var?) - so you may need to add it on to your mode
> hook. (Although I've never had reason to change python-mode)
>
> > Thomas
> >
> >
>
> --
> Lee Morgan