From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to set a "goal column" for 'beginning-of-line'? Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:25:14 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87br0bbzdn.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132732072 4712 80.91.229.2 (23 Nov 2005 07:47:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 08:47:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EepLc-0007Rd-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:47:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EepLb-0005tE-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:47:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JF0IIlF2x42QU+0rMWgvakAhAGY= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.33.38 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1132730715 67.71.33.38 (Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:25:15 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:25:15 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135689 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31292 Archived-At: > Actually I'm using php-mode within html-mode, plus mmm-mode. > Now the identation of PHP code is poor in this condition. After > reading some code doing the identing job I found it is possible > to solve this by set such a "goal column," since most of them > count the column from column 0 by go to there with 'beginning- > of-line'. If we could set this column, a few modifications to mmm- > mode will make it handle identation better. I have trouble understanding your description, but it seems the best approach is to hack the indentation code directly. Stefan