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

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Feb-2009, Vladimir Zhuravlev wrote:

| 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.

It's not that unfriendly, and it seems to be the same way other modes
define indents.  They don't seem to be doing it with tab-width
either.  So maybe you should ask the Emacs developers why?  I don't
know, I think Kurt just followed the lead of the other modes when he
first wrote the Octave mode.

jwe