Re: Indenting Strings (How to?)

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <m2r7ynvdv4.fsf@syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com>,
 Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> wrote:

>         A lot of times when I'm coding I'll have a very long string or
> comments which is some other kind  of code (i.e.  HTML or CSS embedded
> in a  Perl CGI script) or  is text.  Many  times I'll try to  keep the
> indentation neat, but  pressing tab in a string  (or comments) doesn't
> do anything (in CPerl mode, PHP  mode, or any other mode).  This means
> that I end up having to space over manually (a royal PITA).
> 
>         Is there a good way to tell emacs to either treat all comments
> and  strings as  normal  text (i.e  so  I can  get  basic tabbing  and
> justification), or (even better), to set rules concerning how to treat
> comments and strings.

Type C-q TAB to insert a literal TAB character.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA