The shipped theme "manoj-dark" sets the scale of "font-lock-function-name" to 1.1, which breaks the code layout. Please find the following link for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22470820/font-lock-mode-in-haskell-mode-seems-to-ruin-the-width-of-single-spaces-in-emacs In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2014-02-15 on Sajuuk Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11500000 Configured using: `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--disable-silent-rules' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--program-suffix=-emacs-24' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-24' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/../../../../lib64' '--with-gameuser=games' '--without-compress-info' '--without-hesiod' '--without-kerberos' '--without-kerberos5' '--with-gpm' '--with-dbus' '--without-gnutls' '--without-xml2' '--without-selinux' '--without-wide-int' '--with-sound' '--with-x' '--without-ns' '--without-gconf' '--without-gsettings' '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xpm' '--without-imagemagick' '--with-xft' '--without-libotf' '--without-m17n-flt' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' '--with-xaw3d' 'GENTOO_PACKAGE=app-editors/emacs-24.3-r2' 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS='' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: magit-auto-revert-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t diff-auto-refine-mode: t highlight-sexp-mode: t global-auto-complete-mode: t auto-complete-mode: t yas-global-mode: t yas-minor-mode: t keyfreq-autosave-mode: t keyfreq-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t show-paren-mode: t global-linum-mode: t linum-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t