Overriding behavior in major modes (sql-mode, here)

Overriding behavior in major modes (sql-mode, here)

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There is a slight annoyance in sql-mode in Emacs 22 that I would like to
work around.  Namely, I would like to use the <tab> key to indent by two
spaces.  So far, simply setting indent-tabs-mode to nil and tab-width to
2 does the job for me, but in sql mode, those settings seem to be ignored.

How do I go about forcing the <tab> key to behave the way that I would
like it to behave---consistently with all my other editing tasks?

	Thanks!
	Mike

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Re: Overriding behavior in major modes (sql-mode, here)

[Tim X]

Michael Trausch <"mike|s/\x40/\./g;s/|.*|/\x40/g;|trausch"@us> writes:

> There is a slight annoyance in sql-mode in Emacs 22 that I would like to
> work around.  Namely, I would like to use the <tab> key to indent by two
> spaces.  So far, simply setting indent-tabs-mode to nil and tab-width to
> 2 does the job for me, but in sql mode, those settings seem to be ignored.
>
> How do I go about forcing the <tab> key to behave the way that I would
> like it to behave---consistently with all my other editing tasks?
>

A very quick look makes me think that sql-mode is using the tab-to-tab-stop
function to do its indentation. I would try setting tab-stop-list and see
if that helps. M-x edit-tab-stops will let you edit the list
interactively. 

HTH

Tim

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Re: Overriding behavior in major modes (sql-mode, here)

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Tim X, on 09/11/2007 04:25 AM said:
> 
> A very quick look makes me think that sql-mode is using the
> tab-to-tab-stop function to do its indentation. I would try setting
> tab-stop-list and see if that helps. M-x edit-tab-stops will let you
> edit the list interactively.
> 

I tried that (actually I have a custom tab-stop list in my .emacs, but I
tried this too) and it didn't work.  It doesn't indent at /all/ on lines
that follow lines that do not start with whitespace, and on lines that
start with whitespace, it will indent on the next line to the column of
the first non-whitespace character on the previous line.  It doesn't
really make any sense to me, and while I *can* work like that, I don't
particularly enjoy it...

	-- Mike

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