From: use.address@my.homepage.invalid (Chris Gordon-Smith)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tabs and Spaces
Date: 25 May 2009 12:17:22 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77vgiiF1jjcfrU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7chbz9bdyu.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com
Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> use.address@my.homepage.invalid (Chris Gordon-Smith) writes:
>
>> Hello All
>>
>> I have recenly started using emacs for programming, after years using
>> KDevelop. One problem I have is indenting code. I have my own indentation
>> style. and ideally I would like to setup emacs to support it automatically.
>> However, in the short term I'll settle for having emacs convert a TAB
>> keypress into the correct number of spaces to fill whitespace up to the
>> next tabstop.
>>
>> At the moment I have
>>
>> (global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'self-insert-command)
>>
>> in my .emacs to force insertion of a tab, but I have to keep invoking
>> untabify manually (otherwise my code looks misaligned when I upload it to
>> Google Code).
>>
>> Can anyone help.
>
> You shouldn't insert TAB, this is very bad. At the very least, you
> may compute the number of spaces you need to insert and insert them
> rather.
Yes, that's what I would like to do. Can you suggest how to do this. Do I
need to put something in my .emacs file. What would it look like?
>
> But depending on the language you use, a different mode will be used
> to edit your source and each mode may provide its own indenting rules.
>
> In the case of Lisp, you may add a indent-function property to the
> plist of the operator name.
>
> In the case of C, you may customize the variable: c-offsets-alist. See
> also: c-style-alist ; perhaps there's already a style defined that
> you'll like.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-25 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-25 10:48 Tabs and Spaces Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-05-25 11:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-25 12:17 ` Chris Gordon-Smith [this message]
2009-05-25 13:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-25 14:58 ` Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-05-25 15:10 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-05-25 15:58 ` Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-05-25 16:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-25 15:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-25 15:36 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-25 16:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-25 16:19 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-25 16:15 ` B Smith-Mannschott
2009-05-25 17:03 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 21:45 ` Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-05-26 1:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-26 21:31 ` Chris Gordon-Smith
2009-05-26 22:03 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.7877.1243375379.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-26 22:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-27 20:38 ` Chris Gordon-Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.7772.1243271023.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-25 21:48 ` Chris Gordon-Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.7771.1243268169.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-26 12:29 ` Francis Moreau
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