From 6d1f949f2dbda91c3ceeab9ab84c7eb790c412f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pdm Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:12:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Information about TAB characters on Braille displays added to the manual --- speechd-el.texi | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/speechd-el.texi b/speechd-el.texi index 6accfbf..e7f49d4 100644 --- a/speechd-el.texi +++ b/speechd-el.texi @@ -1745,6 +1745,22 @@ Add the following code to your @file{~/.emacs}: ad-do-it)) @end lisp +@cindex TAB characters +@item +@emph{How to avoid excessive occurrences of TAB (C-i) and NL (C-j) +characters on a Braille display in some buffers +(e.g. @code{*Completion*} buffer)?} + +Braille displays generally display exact content, which is usually +what you want. But sometimes TAB characters are inserted to Emacs +buffers for the sole purpose of visual formatting. You can tell Emacs +to suppress this behavior when possible by adding the following code +to your @file{~/.emacs}: + +@lisp +(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) +@end lisp + @cindex repeated reading @item @emph{In some situations, when a modified text is read after