XEmacs configuration help

[Holley]

There will be a way, but it'll be under the regular Emacs config, rather than XEmacs (which is only really a graphical front).  Emacs does tabs as four spaces in all it's incarnations - I've used it under Linux 1.1 through 2.4, AIX and HPUX.  If you're using a reasonable resolution you could always increase the number of columns so it's not such a big problem.

Sorry I can't be of more help, maybe the best place to ask is on a Linux board :-?

[Holley]

Nice to hear you got there in the end!  Emacs won't change indentations on existing text - adding something that would auto-indent would add the tab from where you started adding from (ie. start 2 spaces in, one tab would be 6 spaces in), and basically pressing the tab key does just put in four spaces (there's no 'tab' characer as such, hence you can change what it does as a variable).

While I like unix in principal it is by far the most difficult OS to work with on the desktop, even if you do use a fancy window manager :-(