How to turn off alignment-indent after line continuation in Shell-script mode?

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In Shell-script[sh] mode, Emacs defaults to this style of indentation:

/this/is/an/example/command/broken/over_multiple_lines which \
                                                       causes \
                                                       an \
                                                       annoying \
                                                       indentation

I would like to change this so that each line is indented by only a single tab further than the original line:

/this/is/another example \
  which is indented \
  by a single tab \
  shown here \
  as two spaces

This is what the relevant section of my init.el says I have customised:

 '(sh-backslash-align t)
 '(sh-basic-offset 2)
 '(sh-indent-after-continuation nil)
 '(sh-indent-for-continuation 0)
 '(sh-indentation 2))

What variable am I missing to change the alignment indent to a single-tab indent?

You seem to be looking for the default behavior. Try bisecting your init file for the faulty setting. For the record, with these values for the 5 variables, I get no indentation at all after the continuation. — T. Verron, Oct 25 '16 at 12:59

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 25 '16 at 14:44

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Open a file in shell-script-mode, run M-x customize-variable RET sh-indent-after-continuation, and see if you can set it to always. (This seems to be a relatively new option, Emacs 25.1+)

edited Oct 25 '16 at 14:44

Chakravarthy Raghunandan

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answered Oct 25 '16 at 12:34

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How to turn off alignment-indent after line continuation in Shell-script mode?

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