From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pemente@northpark.edu (Eric Pement) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Understanding Emacs and Tabs Date: 16 May 2003 13:06:04 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <227a55e9.0305161206.1ec75044@posting.google.com> References: <227a55e9.0305060728.582d5361@posting.google.com> <848yteq43p.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053115901 19954 80.91.224.249 (16 May 2003 20:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 20:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 22:11:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19GlXY-00059O-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 22:10:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GlXN-0007cZ-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 16:10:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.185.249.144 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1053115565 2727 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2003 20:06:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 May 2003 20:06:05 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113323 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9818 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9818 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote in message news:<848yteq43p.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>... > pemente@northpark.edu (Eric Pement) writes: > > > Hi! I've just posted a web page entitled "Understanding GNU Emacs > > and Tabs", which I hope to be of help to other users [ ... ] > I wish it explained better about syntax-driven indentation. The key > issue, I think, is that syntax-driven indentation can usually be > configured to the user's liking. And once that has happened, it is a > useful time-saver. That's something that I need to learn more about, but I haven't got enough experience to understand it well enough to explain it to others. My main experience is with web programming languages (HTML, XML, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, etc.). > Another detail that might be useful is the variable > c-tab-always-indent. I will try to work it in there, but my thought was that perhaps this variable is used only for C programming? I use Emacs more frequently for HTML, outline-mode, plain text, so I assumed that maybe c-tab-always-indent was not used that often. My more frequent frustrations happen when I'm editing my .emacs file (Lisp-mode) and the TAB key doesn't seem to work like I expect. So I've developed a habit of just using the spacebar to do all my indentation. Thanks, Kai, for the great help you have been to so many others! -- Eric Pement