On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:16:26AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Romain Francoise wrote: > >Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>emacs21 correctly preserves the tab, while emacs-snapshot converts it > >>to spaces. > > > >There is no tab in the initial file, so a more accurate way to put it is > >"emacs21 inserts a tab, and emacs-snapshot inserts spaces". Whether or > >not that is a bug, I don't know... (tab-width is 8 by default) > > It is a misunderstanding that pressing TAB inserts a tab character in > Emacs; rather, that key runs the command indent-for-tab-command which > in turn calls the function pointed to by indent-line-function. See > section 31.3.1 of the Emacs Manual (in emacs-snapshot). If you want > to insert a tab character, you should press C-q TAB. >...
No, the bug seems to be different from what you are thinking. If I press TAB in at the beginning of the first line of test-before, Emacs correctly inserts a TAB. But this doesn't work in the line where I observe the problem. > Cheers, > > Sven cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]