# Ruby-mode.el and tabbing **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 16, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-mode-el-and-tabbing/132071 "2008-03-16T13:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-mode-el-and-tabbing/132071/1 "2008-03-16T13:09:38Z")
I’m starting to learn RoR on emacs with the ecb and rails plugins. I find myself wanting to type maps in the following way foo = bar.mkfoo( :bangers =\> “mash”, :fish =\> “chips” ) but ruby-mode (i think) keeps doing this: foo = bar.mkfoo( :bangers =\> “mash”, :fish =\> “chips” ) ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-mode-el-and-tabbing/132071/2 "2008-03-16T13:13:49Z")
Frank Wilson wrote: > ) > I’m sorry, but those two snippets look exactly the same to me. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-mode-el-and-tabbing/132071/3 "2008-03-16T13:14:59Z")
Sorry I activated the send keyboard shortcut in gmail by accident… grrr. I’m starting to learn RoR on emacs with the ecb and rails plugins. I find myself wanting to type maps in the following way foo = bar.mkfoo( :bangers =\> “mash”, :fish =\> “chips” ) but ruby-mode (i think) keeps doing this: foo = bar.mkfoo( :bangers =\> “mash”, :fish =\> “chips” ) Which is sometimes way too far to the right. Now ruby-mode seems to have this option: ruby-deep-indent-paren which has default value (40 91 93 t). I have no idea what this means. Does anybody know? I found that (20 91 93 t) makes 1 char tabs, as does setting nil. So I’m almost there I’d just like slightly bigger tabs, like 3 chars maybe. Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-mode-el-and-tabbing/132071/4 "2008-03-16T13:22:06Z")
These are the snippets I meant to write, I hope gmail doesn’t mess them up this time! 😛 I find myself wanting to type maps in the following way foo = bar.mkfoo( :bangers =\> “mash”, :fish =\> “chips” ) but ruby-mode (i think) keeps doing this: foo = bar.mkfoo( :bangers =\> “mash”, :fish =\> “chips” ) # tabbing is much wider now ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@Frank\_Wilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Frank_Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-mode-el-and-tabbing/132071/5 "2008-03-17T09:34:45Z")
Hi, At Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:13:57 +0900, Frank Wilson wrote in [ruby-talk:294742]: > Now ruby-mode seems to have this option: > > ruby-deep-indent-paren > > which has default value > > (40 91 93 t). It is (?( ?[?] t). > I found that (20 91 93 t) makes 1 char tabs, as does setting nil. 20 is a control code. If you don’t want to deep-indent inside parentheses, just remove 40 and set it to (?[?] t). > So I’m almost there I’d just like slightly bigger tabs, like 3 chars maybe. Do you change ruby-indent-tabs-mode and tab-width?