在emacs中，如何在基本模式下为TAB配置固定宽度？

Question

I have the following in my .emacs file:

(setq-default
    indent-tabs-mode nil
    tab-width 4
    tab-stop-list (quote (4 8 12 16))
)

But in my text file below, in the 3rd line, "3" lines up with "12" when I press TAB; it seems to base on the "D" column in the line above. I wanted "3" to line up at 8 instead. How do I achieve that?

0   4   8   12  16
AB  C       D
1   2       3

Thank you.

Answer 1

A simple solution is to change what TAB does to tab-to-tab-stop

ie, place the following somewhere in your .emacs file

(global-set-key (kbd "<tab>") 'tab-to-tab-stop)