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From: Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: change spaces indent in text mode?
Date: 6 Feb 2010 08:21:45 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhmq9kp.1qf.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.482.1264903543.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Sun, 2010-01-31, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 29 January 2010 11:39 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> * 2010-01-29 11:28 (-0800), Brendan Miller wrote:
>>
>>> When I hit tab in text mode, it indents by 5 spaces. How do I change
>>> that? Setting tab-width doesn't seem to do the right thing.
>>
>> TAB key in text-mode indents to the columns of previous line's words. If
>> you want to go to next tab stop, as defined in tab-stop-list variable,
>> use M-i. For example, first write a line like this:
>>
>>      Here     are    some                     words.
>>
>> Then press TAB key a couple of times on the next line. Then go to the
>> beginning of line and press M-i a couple of times. You should see the
>> difference.
>
> Maybe this is a little off-topic, but is their anyway to have that 
> behaviour of the TAB key with source code, say C++ or Python? I would 
> like to align various similar consecutive lines to make them easy to 
> read. Thanks for any suggestions.

Do you have any examples where the default Emacs indentation for C++
and Python isn't readable enough? I'm asking because "align various
similar consecutive lines" is one of the things those indentation
modes do already.

As a source code reader (and maintainer) I appreciate when the
indentation I see follows one of the built-in styles (and
indent-widths) so I can edit it without having to manually tweak my
indentation to keep in style.

/Jorgen

-- 
  // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@  Oo  o.   .  .
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-06  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.440.1264793480.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-29 19:39 ` change spaces indent in text mode? Teemu Likonen
2010-01-29 20:50   ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-29 21:22     ` Tom Rauchenwald
2010-01-30  0:51       ` Brendan Miller
2010-01-30  1:56         ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 21:30     ` Tyler Smith
     [not found]     ` <mailman.444.1264800653.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:07       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]     ` <mailman.447.1264801240.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-06  8:11       ` Jorgen Grahn
2010-02-07  0:51         ` Tim X
2010-02-07  3:31           ` Tim X
2010-02-08  2:14           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.443.1264798210.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30  2:39     ` Tim X
2010-01-30 21:59       ` Glauber Alex Dias Prado
     [not found]       ` <mailman.477.1264888760.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-30 23:06         ` Tim X
2010-01-31  2:05   ` Suvayu Ali
     [not found]   ` <mailman.482.1264903543.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-01 17:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-02  1:32       ` Suvayu Ali
2010-02-06  8:21     ` Jorgen Grahn [this message]
2010-02-07  7:23       ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-29 19:28 Brendan Miller

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