Re: Please why ORDER of .emacs lines here matters.....

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Christian Seberino wrote:

> Notice the py-indent-offset line (2nd one) below.  If I move this
> line further down then I don't
> get 8 space idents anymore.  The order matters!!!! But why???

py-indent-offset is probably a buffer local variable whose value is set
in the python-mode function to the global default.  setq-default only
affects the global value, so if you set that after calling python-mode
the buffer local binding is already set to the original value.  (If that
is true, then your claim the it doesn't work isn't quite true: the first
Python mode buffer will have the old global default, but subsequent
Python mode buffers should have the new global default.)


>   (defun cs-python-mode()
>       (setq-default  py-indent-offset        8            )
>       (python-mode)
>       (turn-on-font-lock)
>       (setq-default  auto-fill-function      'do-auto-fill)
>       (setq-default  py-python-command       "python2.2"  )
>       (setq-default  py-continuation-offset  8            )
>       (setq-default  py-smart-indentation    nil          )
>       (setq-default  py-block-comment-prefix "#"          ))

Either move those setq-defaults to the top level (outside your function),

or just use python mode:

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'cs-python-mode-hook)

(defun cs-python-mode-hook ()
   (turn-on-font-lock)
   (setq auto-fill-function 'do-auto-fill
	py-python-command "python2.2"
	py-indent-offset 8
	py-continuation-offset 8
	py-smart-indentation nil
	py-block-comment-prefix "#"))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers