Re: Indentation in C

[Yuri Shtil <yshtil@cisco.com>]

Varun Sinha wrote:
> I was wondering how I could get the following done in EMACS-
> 
> 1) When I hit tab to indent, I'd like the tab to be made up of spaces.
> I love the way I can hit tab anywhere on a line, and it indents the
> line according to the specifications and I don't want to lose that.
> The indentation should be two spaces. I was trying some of the
> options, but when (I think) I replaced the tabs with spaces, I lost
> the ability to tab anywhere in the line and get indentation.
> 
> 2) Right now, the curly braces are indented two spaces below the
> function call or the control statement, like so
> 
> function_name
>   {
>     .........
>     .........
>   }
> 
> but I need the curly braces to not be indented like so
> 
> function_name
> {
>   ...........
>   ...........
> }
> 
> I tried looking through the documentation for EMACS to get these, but
> I wasn't able to make sense out of it. Ordinarily, it wouldn't matter
> to me, but the professor for my course has laid down these standards.
> I tried asking him and the TA, but they all use VI and told me either
> to switch (yeah right) or use manual spacing.
> 
> Thanks a lot!!
> 
> Varun


Look up the variable indent-tabs-mode.