Re: 'smart' indentation

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Michael Powe <michael@trollope.org> writes:

> i would like to have 'smart' indentation, à la some editors i use like
> textpad.

Compared with Emacs standards, that indentation is rather dumb...

> if i indent a line, then when i press enter at the end of the line,
> i want point to go to the indented position on the following line.

On the new line, invoke M-x indent-relative RET.  I like to use that
in text mode a lot, so I do (define-key text-mode-map (kbd "RET")
'indent-relative) in my ~/.emacs file.


Usually, Emacs does syntax-driven indentation.  This means that it
groks the syntax of your programming language and then uses the right
indentation level.
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