From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri Shtil Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indentation in C Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:46:32 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <400EF338.8010408@cisco.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074722472 28643 80.91.224.253 (21 Jan 2004 22:01:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 21 23:01:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjQPL-0006D0-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:01:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjQPD-0007Sd-Fh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:00:59 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Cache-Post-Path: sj-nntpcache-3!unknown@10.32.9.61 X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 42 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:82925 gnu.emacs.help:120313 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16257 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16257 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.