[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#515962: Bug#515962: octave3.0-emacsen: octave mode does not respect tab-width

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Feb-2009, Vladimir Z wrote:

| Package: octave3.0-emacsen
| Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny3
| Severity: normal
| 
| The octave mode does respect user's tab-width variable. 
| in octave-mode.el:
| 
| (defcustom octave-block-offset 2
|   "Extra indentation applied to statements in Octave block structures."
|   :type 'integer
|   :group 'octave)
| 
| "2" should be "tab-width", I believe. 

Looking at other Emacs programming modes, I don't see that this is the
common way to define indentation widths, so I don't see why Octave
mode should do it.

BTW, are you setting tab-width to something other than 8?  I think
that is almost always the wrong thing to do, because then if you share
your files with someone else who doesn't know what your special
tab-width setting is, the file will likely look garbled.

jwe