Re: [jed-users] Simulated tabs without having to use Esc-X ?

[Tom Culliton <tom.culliton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Add this to your .jed/jed.rc or the equivalent:

TAB = 0;  % 0 means always use spaces

You may also need to set various mode indents like:

C_INDENT = 4;
variable Py_Indent_Level = 4;
variable XML_INDENT = 4;



On Thu, May 14, 2026, 15:32 Hippo Man <hippo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have read the documentation about tabs in this document:
>
>
> https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/configuring-jed/
>
> I want to use simulated tabs consisting of 4 spaces in all files
> that I edit via Jed, without exception.
>
> I don't want to manually perform the Esc-X sequence described
> in that documentation in each buffer that I edit, and I want
> to force the use of 4-space simulated tabs by means of one or
> more commands within the Jed configuration files.
>
> And to be clear, I want the result to always be that no
> Ctrl-I characters ever appear in any of my Jed-edited text,
> and that all tabbing is implemented via the use of spaces.
>
> However, I can't figure out from that documentation how to
> force such space-character-implemented tabbing via any kind of
> function call or configuration in the Jed config files.
>
> Is there any way to do this in Jed, or am I stuck with having
> to rely on the manual Esc-X sequence in each buffer that I
> am editing?
>
>
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