Auto-Indent

Auto-Indent

[digits]

I can't find any information on how to solve this (simple) matter.

That Emacs keep the amount of tab's at the beginning of the line when I 
press enter, no matter which mode I am in.

Is there a way for this, or should I start looking into other editors - 
because this is a must have for me.

/Gunnar

Re: Auto-Indent

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: digits <digits@gentoo.se>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:11:23 GMT
> 
> I can't find any information on how to solve this (simple) matter.

You should be able to find it in the node "Basic Indent" of the Emacs
manual.  Care to tell how you tried to look for it and come you didn't
find it?

> That Emacs keep the amount of tab's at the beginning of the line when I 
> press enter, no matter which mode I am in.

Emacs already does that in most modes, but the command to do it is by
default bound to C-j, for which many keyboards lack a key (if you
have a keyboard with a key labeled "LFD", try using it instead of the
Return key).  You could either type Ctrl-j to get what you want, or
you could bind this function to the Return key, by putting this:

(global-set-key "\C-m" 'newline-and-indent)

into your ~/.emacs init file.

> Is there a way for this, or should I start looking into other editors - 
> because this is a must have for me.

Threats?  Not very nice, IMHO.

Re: Auto-Indent

[digits]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: digits <digits@gentoo.se>
>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:11:23 GMT
>>
>>I can't find any information on how to solve this (simple) matter.
> 
> 
> You should be able to find it in the node "Basic Indent" of the Emacs
> manual.  Care to tell how you tried to look for it and come you didn't
> find it?
> 
> 
>>That Emacs keep the amount of tab's at the beginning of the line when I 
>>press enter, no matter which mode I am in.
> 
> 
> Emacs already does that in most modes, but the command to do it is by
> default bound to C-j, for which many keyboards lack a key (if you
> have a keyboard with a key labeled "LFD", try using it instead of the
> Return key).  You could either type Ctrl-j to get what you want, or
> you could bind this function to the Return key, by putting this:
> 
> (global-set-key "\C-m" 'newline-and-indent)
> 
> into your ~/.emacs init file.
> 
> 
>>Is there a way for this, or should I start looking into other editors - 
>>because this is a must have for me.
> 
> 
> Threats?  Not very nice, IMHO.

Wasn't a a thread, pure statement of fact, because it is a must-have and 
if I can't find a what I'm looking for in a product I start looking for 
a replacement :)

auto-indent

[hastenthunder]

Hi Group,

I'm trying to figure out how to get emacs to auto-indent.

For example, if I type
        This is the first line

I like my second line to start at position 6 rather than position 1.

Can any one tell me how to do this?  Sorry if this question seem simple.

auto-indent

[hastenthunder]

Hi Group,

I'm trying to figure out how to get emacs to auto-indent.

For example, if I type
        This is the first line

I like my second line to start at position 6 rather than position 1.

Can any one tell me how to do this?  Sorry if this question seem simple.

Re: auto-indent

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

"hastenthunder" <hastenthunder@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi Group,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to get emacs to auto-indent.
>
> For example, if I type
>         This is the first line
>
> I like my second line to start at position 6 rather than position 1.
>
> Can any one tell me how to do this?  Sorry if this question seem simple.

indented-text-mode

>From the description:

indented-text-mode is an alias for `text-mode' in `textmodes/text-mode'.
(indented-text-mode)

Major mode for editing text written for humans to read.
In this mode, paragraphs are delimited only by blank or white lines.
You can thus get the full benefit of adaptive filling
 (see the variable `adaptive-fill-mode').
key             binding
---             -------

TAB		indent-relative
ESC		Prefix Command

ESC S		center-paragraph
ESC s		center-line
ESC TAB		ispell-complete-word


Turning on Text mode runs the normal hook `text-mode-hook'.

-- 
G Hassenpflug RASC, Kyoto University

auto-indent

[Michael P. Soulier]

    Hey people. How would I modify auto-fill mode so that it works the same
way as auto-indent in Vi? All I want it to do is, when it wraps the line,
indent to the same position as the previous line. 

    Thanks,
    Mike

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Re: auto-indent

[Kai Großjohann]

"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca._nospam> writes:

>     Hey people. How would I modify auto-fill mode so that it works the same
> way as auto-indent in Vi? All I want it to do is, when it wraps the line,
> indent to the same position as the previous line. 

This is what happens for me.

    See here.  This is a line starting with four spaces and I'm just
    typing stuff to make auto-fill happen.

There.

kai
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Re: auto-indent

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 16 Nov 2002 02:51:37 GMT, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca._nospam>
wrote:
>     Hey people. How would I modify auto-fill mode so that it works the same
> way as auto-indent in Vi? All I want it to do is, when it wraps the line,
> indent to the same position as the previous line. 

    Ok, I'm trying to do this by rebinding the return key. This is for
sgml-mode, where I'm doing it like so:

(defun my-sgml-mode-hook ()
  "My personal sgml mode customizations."
  (setq sgml-indent-step nil)
  (setq sgml-indent-data nil)
  (define-key sgml-mode-map [RET]
    '(lambda ()
       (newline)
       (indent-relative)))
  )

    This apparently shows up in the sgml-mode-map, but when I go into an xml
file in sgml-mode (with help from xxml-mode), and do a C-h k RET, it says that
the key is still bound to newline. How can that be? Why isn't this working?

    Thanks,
    Mike

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Re: auto-indent

[Kai Großjohann]

"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca._nospam> writes:

>   (define-key sgml-mode-map [RET]
                              ^^^^^
                              (kbd "RET")

kai
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Re: auto-indent

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:53:33 +0100, Kai Großjohann
<kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
>                               (kbd "RET")

    That did it, thanks. 

    Also add (interactive) to my lambda function. :)

    Mike

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