Indentation setting for C-Sharp files.

Indentation setting for C-Sharp files.

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi,

I am collaborating with some C# projects being developed partly on the
iMac with MonoDevelop and on Windows with Visual Studio. The Mono
environment is technical lead, so the other tools better follow its
indentation and space/tab rules.

The 'standard' in this MonoDevelop environment is to use tabs to do the
indentation, not spaces, and the 'display width' of the tab is set to 4.

The 'display width' is less important, but I'd like to tell emacs to use
only tabs to do the indentation. I've surfed the net and found lots of
places telling me how to achieve the opposite, i.e. using only spaces.

Is there a way to force emacs to only use tabs for indentation? And such
a setting exists, could it also define the tab width to 4, but still use
tabs (so three tabs at the start of the line would be displayed as 12
whitespace columns)?

TIA,


Guido

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Re: Indentation setting for C-Sharp files.

[Óscar Fuentes]

Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> writes:

[snip]

> Is there a way to force emacs to only use tabs for indentation? And such
> a setting exists, could it also define the tab width to 4, but still use
> tabs (so three tabs at the start of the line would be displayed as 12
> whitespace columns)?

See the variables tab-width and indent-tabs-mode.

Re: Indentation setting for C-Sharp files.

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi Oscar

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 19:17, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Is there a way to force emacs to only use tabs for indentation? And such
>> a setting exists, could it also define the tab width to 4, but still use
>> tabs (so three tabs at the start of the line would be displayed as 12
>> whitespace columns)?
>
> See the variables tab-width and indent-tabs-mode.

My tab-width is 8 and indent-tabs-mode is t, also in my C# buffers, but
that does not cause the expected behaviour.

Kind Regards,


Guido

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Re: Indentation setting for C-Sharp files.

[Óscar Fuentes]

Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> writes:

>>> Is there a way to force emacs to only use tabs for indentation? And such
>>> a setting exists, could it also define the tab width to 4, but still use
>>> tabs (so three tabs at the start of the line would be displayed as 12
>>> whitespace columns)?
>>
>> See the variables tab-width and indent-tabs-mode.
>
> My tab-width is 8 and indent-tabs-mode is t, also in my C# buffers, but
> that does not cause the expected behaviour.

It does for me. After visiting a .cs file (this activates csharp-mode on
my setup):

M-x set-variable [enter] tab-width [enter] 4 [enter]
M-x set-variable [enter] indent-tabs-mode [enter] t [enter]

now the lines I insert use 4 column wide tabs for indenting.

Please note that you must set those variables *after* visiting the file
you want to edit, because they become buffer-local (associated with the
current buffer) as soon as you change their value. Usually that's done
with a mode hook, but for experimenting the manual method described
above should work.

Re: Indentation setting for C-Sharp files.

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi Óscar,

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 21:03, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> Is there a way to force emacs to only use tabs for indentation? And such
>>>> a setting exists, could it also define the tab width to 4, but still use
>>>> tabs (so three tabs at the start of the line would be displayed as 12
>>>> whitespace columns)?
>>>
>>> See the variables tab-width and indent-tabs-mode.
>>
>> My tab-width is 8 and indent-tabs-mode is t, also in my C# buffers, but
>> that does not cause the expected behaviour.
>
> It does for me. After visiting a .cs file (this activates csharp-mode on
> my setup):
>
> M-x set-variable [enter] tab-width [enter] 4 [enter]
> M-x set-variable [enter] indent-tabs-mode [enter] t [enter]
>
> now the lines I insert use 4 column wide tabs for indenting.
>

This works in an 'emacs -q' session. So now I've seen that it can work,
I'll have to selectively disable parts of my setup until I find the
culprit.

Thanx for reminding me of the basics :)

Kind regards,



Guido

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