From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tab / indent / spaces / modes Date: 27 Jan 2004 14:07:42 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075213494 22890 80.91.224.253 (27 Jan 2004 14:24:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 15:24:48 2004 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 1AlU91-0000nO-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:24:48 +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 1AlU6R-0006V5-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:22:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!alpha.watson.ibm.com!kgold Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1075212462 18470 9.2.16.245 (27 Jan 2004 14:07:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 2004 14:07:42 GMT X-Newsreader: xrn 9.02 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120464 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:16410 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16410 richard@sunsetandlabrea.com (Richard Chamberlain) writes: > > After getting a bit sick of my current editor I decided I should > really learn emacs. I'm fairly ok with the basics of editing. However > I'm totally lost when it comes to configuration. > > I'm using php-mode and I want to be able to switch off the indentation > mode, because what I want for formatting and what php-mode suggests is > different. This might not be the answer you want but ... Rather than turn off indentation, why not just customize it to format the way you like? In emacs, nearly everything is customizable. I use emacs for mostly C-like programming languages. I've found that the automatic indentation is a big time saver, both because it saves typing and because it finds missing punctuation. It's great when you cut and paste, and the pasted code is automaticly reformatted. Or you can select sections of code written by someone else and reformat it. Since you're new to emacs, I suggest you give it a chance before you start turning pieces of it off.