El vie, 21-12-2007 a las 13:30 +0100, Umar Said escribió:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:07:05 -0800, nullius.filius wrote:
> > X-no-archive: Yes
> > 
> > 
> > You have to give a hint to emacs that you want to format a c++ file.
> > You do that by naming the file before you try and format it.
> > 
> > Go to the file menu and click on the menu item 'Visit new File' go to
> > the directory you want to save your file, and type in your file name
> > (test.cpp) and click the open button.
> > 
> > Now paste your code into emacs.
> > 
> > Once emacs has a hint on what type of file it is formatting, then
> > it can format it.
> 
> Thank you nullius. It solves the problem.

Note that you don't really need to name the file with the usual
extension for the file format. You can tell emacs that you're editing a
C++ file with "M-x c++-mode", despite of its name.

I strongly recommend reading the emacs tutorial (C-h t) if you didn't
already.


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