Re: Vim like auto indent mode

[Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid>]

Ding Lei <dinglei@ipanel.cn> wrote on Wed, 19 May 2004 15:55:00 +0800:
> Hello folks,

> 	Under JDE/C++/C mode, Emacs will auto indent upon some symbols
> 	like an ending parenthess("{") or a semi-colon, but I really hope
> 	that it will auto indent immediately I press the return key.  For
> 	example, When I type:

> 	for (;;;) {

> 	Emacs should indent by one tab, but actually it now will indent
> 	only after I type the semicolon.
 	
> 	Any Ideas ? Thanks in advance.	

I take it you mean you want Emacs to indent the _new_ line after pressing
<return>, not the line with the "for (;;;) {".  Do one of the following:

(i) On the new line, you can use <tab> at any time to indent the line;

(ii) If you use C-j instead of <return> it should do what you want, but
you probably won't like typing C-j all the time )-;

(iii) Bind <return> to what you want, by putting this into your .emacs:
(eval-after-load "cc-mode"
  '(define-key c-mode-base-map "\C-m" 'c-context-line-break))

> D i n g    L e i

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