From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:23:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6E6A5D.9060006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnhmq9kp.1qf.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid>
On Saturday 06 February 2010 12:21 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-31, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Friday 29 January 2010 11:39 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>>> * 2010-01-29 11:28 (-0800), Brendan Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I hit tab in text mode, it indents by 5 spaces. How do I change
>>>> that? Setting tab-width doesn't seem to do the right thing.
>>>
>>> TAB key in text-mode indents to the columns of previous line's words. If
>>> you want to go to next tab stop, as defined in tab-stop-list variable,
>>> use M-i. For example, first write a line like this:
>>>
>>> Here are some words.
>>>
>>> Then press TAB key a couple of times on the next line. Then go to the
>>> beginning of line and press M-i a couple of times. You should see the
>>> difference.
>>
>> Maybe this is a little off-topic, but is their anyway to have that
>> behaviour of the TAB key with source code, say C++ or Python? I would
>> like to align various similar consecutive lines to make them easy to
>> read. Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Do you have any examples where the default Emacs indentation for C++
> and Python isn't readable enough? I'm asking because "align various
> similar consecutive lines" is one of the things those indentation
> modes do already.
I work with a data analysis framework based on C++ libraries
dynamically loaded by various python scripts. It often has code like
this,
Python:
> if rec.doCalo:
> ## Import CaloCluster Tool
> from DataQualityTools.DataQualityToolsConf import DQTCaloClusterTool
> DQTCaloClusterTool = DQTCaloClusterTool(name = 'DQTCaloClusterTool',
> histoPathBase = "/GLOBAL/DQTCaloCluster",
> doRunCosmics = isCosmics,
> doRunBeam = isBeam,
> doOfflineHists = isOffline,
> doOnlineHists = isOnline
> );
>
> ToolSvc += DQTCaloClusterTool;
> ManagedAthenaGlobalMon.AthenaMonTools += [ DQTCaloClusterTool ];
or C++:
> failure = failure | registerHist(fullPathMuons, m_trkeffvsLumi = new TProfile("m_trk_trkeffvsLumi", "Trk eff per Lumi block", 1000, 0, 1000, 0, 1)).isFailure();
> failure = failure | registerHist(fullPathMuons, m_fwdetatrkeffvsLumi = new TProfile("m_trk_fwdetatrkeffvsLumi", "Forward Eta eff per Lumi block", 1000, 0, 1000, 0, 1)).isFailure();
> failure = failure | registerHist(fullPathMuons, m_bkwdetatrkeffvsLumi = new TProfile("m_trk_bkwdetatrkeffvsLumi", "Backward Eta eff per Lumi block", 1000, 0, 1000, 0, 1)).isFailure();
As you can see, because of the long and wieldy names, aligning them
with the previous line often helps improve the readability.
> As a source code reader (and maintainer) I appreciate when the
> indentation I see follows one of the built-in styles (and
> indent-widths) so I can edit it without having to manually tweak my
> indentation to keep in style.
Would you do this some other way? Thanks for any suggestions, I
appreciate it.
> /Jorgen
>
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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2010-01-29 19:39 ` change spaces indent in text mode? Teemu Likonen
2010-01-29 20:50 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-29 21:22 ` Tom Rauchenwald
2010-01-30 0:51 ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-30 1:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 21:30 ` Tyler Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.444.1264800653.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.447.1264801240.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-06 8:11 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 0:51 ` Tim X
2010-02-07 3:31 ` Tim X
2010-02-08 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.443.1264798210.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 2:39 ` Tim X
2010-01-30 21:59 ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
[not found] ` <mailman.477.1264888760.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 23:06 ` Tim X
2010-01-31 2:05 ` Suvayu Ali
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1264903543.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-02 1:32 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-06 8:21 ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07 7:23 ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
2010-01-29 19:28 Brendan Miller
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