This section explains the mechanism for user-specified "tab stops" and the mechanisms that use and set them. The name "tab stops" is used because the feature is similar to that of the tab stops on a typewriter. The feature works by inserting an appropriate number of spaces and tab characters to reach the next tab stop column; it does not affect the display of tab characters in the buffer (see section Usual Display Conventions). Note that the TAB character as input uses this tab stop feature only in a few major modes, such as Text mode.
tab-stop-list. It searches the list for
an element greater than the current column number, and uses that element
as the column to indent to. It does nothing if no such element is
found.
tab-to-tab-stops. The elements should be integers in increasing
order. The tab stop columns need not be evenly spaced.
Use M-x edit-tab-stops to edit the location of tab stops interactively.
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