Re: Indentation setting for C-Sharp files.

[Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>]

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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