From: Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [emacs] tabs, spaces, and indentation
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:42:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101012014256.GA3714@srevilak.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=eM1wriOi=bsRpMEh5WfCyyL3mVGKn_oCDu2oa@mail.gmail.com>
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>From: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
>> For (1) something like
>>
>> (setq c-basic-offset 8
>> indent-tabs-mode t
>> c-insert-tab-function 'tab-to-tab-stop)
>>
>> (setq c-syntactic-indentation nil) ; maybe, or maybe not this one
>>
>> should be close to the behavior you're looking for.
>>
>> For (2), try
>>
>> (c-toggle-electric-state -1)
>Thanks a lot for this information. I have taken your tips and done
>additional online research. I came up with the following .emacs file for
>this project that has absolutely horrid indentation and use of tabs:
>
> (defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
> (c-toggle-electric-state -1)
> (define-key c-mode-base-map (kbd "TAB") 'self-insert-command))
> (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)
Nerius,
That's great. I'm glad I was able to give you a starting point.
>It almost behaves how I want now. I hit Tab, it creates a tab. It does not
>start indenting stuff when I type a special character such as a paren or a
>semicolon. However, there is still one thing needed to make it behave just
>like Notepad. Let's say my cursor is positioned immediately following a tab
>character. When I hit Backspace (I believe that causes a function
>"backward-delete-char" to be called), it converts that tab character into a
>bunch of spaces, then deletes the last space. I would really like Backspace
>to just delete the tab character. Is there any way to do this? I suppose
>I'd have to rebind Backspace to a function other than backward-delete-char,
>but I'm not sure which function.
In C-mode, "C-h k DEL" tells me that DEL calls c-electric-backspace,
which in turn calls the function bound to c-backspace-function.
For me, c-backspace-function is bound to
backward-delete-char-untabify, which will convert a tab into a series
of spaces.
Maybe
(setq c-backspace-function 'backward-delete-char)
is what you're looking for.
Steve
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-12 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-06 20:06 [emacs] tabs, spaces, and indentation Nerius Landys
2010-10-07 4:22 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-08 21:44 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-08 22:12 ` Nerius Landys
2010-10-07 6:26 ` Jonathan Groll
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1286432793.11901.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-07 9:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-09 2:08 ` Steve Revilak
2010-10-11 20:19 ` Nerius Landys
2010-10-11 21:43 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-10-11 22:14 ` Nerius Landys
2010-10-12 1:42 ` Steve Revilak [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1286828409.23066.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-11 21:58 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] <mailman.5.1286400966.24129.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-06 22:05 ` despen
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