From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Hefczyc Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs newbie - Syntax Highlighting and Indentation Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:20:32 +0430 Organization: Aster City Net Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ekw9zicn.fsf@141-moc-9.acn.waw.pl> References: Reply-To: DONTkobit@SPAMplusnet.MEpl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068915630 889 80.91.224.253 (15 Nov 2003 17:00:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 18:00:27 2003 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 1AL3mc-0004OE-01 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:00:26 +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 1AL4iz-0006jM-Td for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:00:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!news.astercity.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.76.54.141 Original-X-Trace: foka1.acn.pl 1068914662 21481 212.76.54.141 (15 Nov 2003 16:44:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@astercity.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:44:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Tech-Contact: usenet@astercity.net X-Server-Info: http://www.astercity.net/news/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IrYGl3tF22Z7Rjs/bF8xKr6q08I= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEWZnZ3Iy9WTkI0NBA/H oYr09Ph6ZFJAKRng2dewemz3jcCRAAACR0lEQVR4nFWSvWvjQBDF1+a42jJyUKkTwcnVLtzGZrjL ljki2PJsi3HUHRi0tSGCrc2isP/tvVn5SyNceH779r0ZSZGnk59bvtVhIaVCRd3jfH/r7xc90LUn 2lvboGftVQBFzV3d6Y5tYwWfBVAEDoEhsRZnrb0CW5Ej+pKOHQB6dZnT0ljaWBfw2gOxxw/0Yp6g st9yNCZdXhVEajWN9zRsBZwlSmq6iwbcm5xBotRI7ZaLy4j20BOcL4rvcYKGA2z4sLxcNS7m8W4Z FKobKIriIKAOmgH39qpQAhYNttnVAIuBYmEFhBC6AYhxayINwPYGxjsJFbyQbn9nPpat14GiBFu4 XYX8TQCABx/uQD7HBB6nEddWL/HtqhxAzUMQgLkDV60xqeYI8p8hxLBce9641jlHACrPi0eSTHj9 vquOLjOexLpQYwAJFYLXAO6hIjHPC1H0Y5A+vahvXz4C7LdA0D5uOCmAEOJVGJGlp/GwX03SJ76A OWxlbLFaJelTo6NDBBQJ80mN0l916B0K3noxlpXwFu/eexWP7/+l5DV5j0G7k9gFlcsGt7N3DK41 ZKuUSNQK/W0xK41MoTWFVZIgNj7Dhp9LqTQOXqHvQAB420rfvOEPFpUlxwQ/APtsIik/cVf3Q77x xLnjWv0tz2VS7Cm25ZkotHpF+U7rTRRk2TEzqrzV5zpJzlc5dw/MzPUK9AeKt605C5DnHvzhUS9o TTlQPPBHD0pXHodgIyauLc0QTHnk2iMEpWnvU5kJf8wMEslo5j+pJm2vs6mv0wAAAABJRU5ErkJg gg== Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118328 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:14270 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14270 David Rasmussen writes: > Most of you said that I should put somehting along the lines of > (setq c-basic-offset 2) > in my .emacs to alter the tab spacing and indentation. But it doesn't work? It may not work if you put only above code, bacuse each major mode has own definition for such variables. So you should set this variable _for_ _java_ mode in your case. You should use mode hook as described in my previous post. Put those code in your .emacs file and try it then. (You should restart emacs after modyfing .emacs) I checked it before minute and it worked for me. If it still doesn't work for you it might mean you doesn't use java mode by default for java files. Maybe jde mode then? To see what is your major mode during editing java files you should open java file under emacs and then execute emacs function 'describe-mode' in following way: M-x describe-mode (press: 'Alt-x' and write function name: 'describe-mode' and press ) New window should appear with 3rd non empty line: Java mode: It is 'Jde mode:' on my installation. Please let me know if you successed or not. Artur -- Artur Hefczyc, Open Source Developer: http://www.geotools.org/ http://generguide.sourceforge.net/ http://wttools.sourceforge.net/ http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/