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Yes, this makes the tab a real tab, no matter whether it makes sense or not. The normal tab looks whether a tab fits into the code. Something that is left aligned will not get indented by the tab when in the code, this tab would make no sense. This is to help with auto-aligning, but most of the time you will rather use a code editor and not emacs for code formatting. And then in emacs, you often rather just want the tab in any case. This code here makes 8 spaces whenever you press tab. Combine this with this answer to make 4 spaces on M+i.

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2022-01-24 17:19:44 +00:00
Commented Jan 24, 2022 at 17:19

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)

<https://example.com>

[example](https://example.com)

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