Change tab-with in nxhtml-mode

Change tab-with in nxhtml-mode

[Niels Geuts]

Hello,

When writing in nxhtml-mode, when I press <tab> the cursor moves 2 spaces to
the right. I want this to be 4 spaces. How can I change this? The standard
Indent variable from the Indent customization group is already set to 4. I
can't find any working solutions on this forum, the EmacsWiki or mumamo.el.

thanks,

Niels
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Re: Change tab-with in nxhtml-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Niels Geuts <nielsgeurtslists@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> When writing in nxhtml-mode, when I press <tab> the cursor moves 2 spaces
> to
> the right. I want this to be 4 spaces. How can I change this? The standard
> Indent variable from the Indent customization group is already set to 4. I
> can't find any working solutions on this forum, the EmacsWiki or mumamo.el.
>

Hi Niels,

You have to be a little bit more specific. Are you using nxhtml-mode alone
or are you using it as part of nxhtml-mumamo multi major mode?

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Re: Change tab-with in nxhtml-mode

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Niels Geuts <nielsgeurtslists@gmail.com> wrote:

> When writing in nxhtml-mode, when I press <tab> the cursor moves 2 spaces to
> the right. I want this to be 4 spaces. How can I change this?

Please note that this is not called "tab-width".  `tab-width' is the
amount of spaces a tab character (\t) is displayed with.

> The standard Indent variable from the Indent customization group is
> already set to 4.

Note that `standard-indent' is the value used for `increase-left-margin'
et al.  Other modes usually don't inherit its value.  So you need to
look inside the package (and its dependencies) for the appropriate variables.

I don't know about nxhtml-mode, but nxml-mode uses `nxml-child-indent'.



regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: Change tab-with in nxhtml-mode

[Niels Geuts]

>> When writing in nxhtml-mode, when I press <tab> the cursor moves 2 spaces
>> to> the right. I want this to be 4 spaces. How can I change this? 

> Are you using nxhtml-mode alone or are you using it as part of
> nxhtml-mumamo
> multi major mode?

I write PHP, XHTML and CSS, but I did not set mumamo explicitly. It just
works :) I would like the indentation for the PHP chunks to be 4 spaces. But
I would also like to know how to create tabs in CSS files. If I press <tab>
when writing CSS, nothing happens.

Thank you,

Niels
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Re: Change tab-with in nxhtml-mode

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Niels Geuts wrote:
>>> When writing in nxhtml-mode, when I press <tab> the cursor moves 2 spaces
>>> to> the right. I want this to be 4 spaces. How can I change this? 
> 
>> Are you using nxhtml-mode alone or are you using it as part of
>> nxhtml-mumamo
>> multi major mode?
> 
> I write PHP, XHTML and CSS, but I did not set mumamo explicitly. It just
> works :) I would like the indentation for the PHP chunks to be 4 spaces.

I have never tried to set that. Looking at the php-mode.el you can see 
that it uses c-indent-line for indentation of php code.

I think someone else have to answer how to customize that.

> But
> I would also like to know how to create tabs in CSS files. If I press <tab>
> when writing CSS, nothing happens.

If you press <tab> you tell Emacs to indent the line. You can see that 
by doing

    C-h k tab

Re: Change tab-with in nxhtml-mode

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Niels Geuts <nielsgeurtslists@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like the indentation for the PHP chunks to be 4 spaces.

Try setting `c-basic-offset'.

> But I would also like to know how to create tabs in CSS files. If I
> press <tab> when writing CSS, nothing happens.

Check the value of `css-indent-offset'.
If you want to create a literal tab character, you can always do C-q C-i.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: Change tab-with in nxhtml-mode

[Niels Geuts]

>> I would like the indentation for the PHP chunks to be 4 spaces.

>Try setting `c-basic-offset'.

Yes, this works.

>If you want to create a literal tab character, you can always do C-q C-i.

I just read that C-q <tab> also does this.

For other people who might encounter the same difficulties: as an Emacs
beginner the following tutorial on indentation was very helpful to me:
http://www.xemacs.org/Links/tutorials_1.html

(I just found it with the help of the previous posts. Thanks everyone!)

Niels
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