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

[Hippo Man <hippo@xxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much.

I just now put those commands into jed.rc. In jed, I now
see tabs only taking up 4 spaces, but jed is still inserting
explicit Control-I characters into the buffer.

In other words, spaces are indeed used to show the tab stops
on the screen when using jed, but the file itself still
contains Control-I characters instead of those spaces.

Is there perhaps more besides this that is also necessary
to ensure that spaces always explicitly get inserted into
the buffer instead of any Control-I characters?


On 5/14/26 3:45 PM, Tom Culliton wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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