[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#515962: [Fwd: Re: Bug#515962: octave3.0-emacsen: octave mode does not respect tab-width]

[Vladimir Zhuravlev]

Hi John,

I set tab-width to 8, but Octave mode does not care about this.
Then I tell it to indent (say, M-C-q), it uses tabs of two
spaces,
which is _not_ nice.

regards,
Vladimir

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 18-Feb-2009, Vladimir Z wrote:
> 
> | Package: octave3.0-emacsen | Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny3 |
> Severity: normal | | The octave mode does respect user's
> tab-width variable. | in octave-mode.el: | | (defcustom
> octave-block-offset 2 |   "Extra indentation applied to
> statements in Octave block structures." |   :type
> 'integer |   :group 'octave) | | "2" should be
> "tab-width", I believe.
> 
> Looking at other Emacs programming modes, I don't see
> that this is the common way to define indentation widths,
> so I don't see why Octave mode should do it.
> 
> BTW, are you setting tab-width to something other than 8?
> I think that is almost always the wrong thing to do,
> because then if you share your files with someone else
> who doesn't know what your special tab-width setting is,
> the file will likely look garbled.
> 
> jwe
>