Have shell-mode obey standard indentation style variables

Have shell-mode obey standard indentation style variables

[Andrew Pennebaker]

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Emacs offers convenient variables for customizing indentation styles:
indent-tabs-mode and sws-tab-width. For many programming modes, a user can
set these variables globally, and they will automatically be applied to
different file formats. Of course, these can be customized per-mode with
hooks.

However, shell-mode does not appear to respect these variables, only
responding to its own internal variable names sh-basic-offset and
sh-indentation. In the future, could shell-mode please automatically
default these to follow sws-tab-width, so that fewer individual modes
require specific configuration?

Here's my .emacs for reference:

https://github.com/mcandre/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs#L59-L60

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Cheers,
Andrew

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Re: Have shell-mode obey standard indentation style variables

[Andreas Schwab]

Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> writes:

> Emacs offers convenient variables for customizing indentation styles:
> indent-tabs-mode and sws-tab-width.

sws-tab-width is void as a variable.

Documentation:
Not documented as a variable.

> However, shell-mode does not appear to respect these variables, only
> responding to its own internal variable names sh-basic-offset and
> sh-indentation. In the future, could shell-mode please automatically
> default these to follow sws-tab-width, so that fewer individual modes
> require specific configuration?

sh-basic-offset and tab-width are independent concepts.

Andreas.

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