From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: use.address@my.homepage.invalid (Chris Gordon-Smith) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tabs and Spaces Date: 25 May 2009 12:17:22 GMT Organization: SimSoup Message-ID: <77vgiiF1jjcfrU1@mid.individual.net> References: <77vbbiF1jhhubU1@mid.individual.net> <7chbz9bdyu.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243265083 8009 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2009 15:24:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:24:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 25 17:24:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M8c1l-00010v-5E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:23:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8c1k-00043L-BW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:23:48 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Trace: individual.net PIrSJ0HmbsY75L6tviPLdwYW39/jBkGKv3jwO909qPSMWLByC3 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:N1eBylbpg3L7LwGbdKr10Ju3C6o= User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-2-686 (i686)) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169455 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:20:32 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64693 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon 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. > >