Indenting is used to organize code by indicating blocks, closures, conditionals, and other constructs. It makes code easier to read, and in some languages is used to handle control flow.
Questions tagged [indentation]
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How to disable auto-indentation of new lines?
I've recently upgraded emacs to version 24.4.1 and something has changed in the indentation of new lines. When I hit enter I expect just "bare" new line character at point where cursor was present, in particular if I'm in the middle of the line,…
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How to pretty-format code (auto-insert newlines, indent, etc)?
I'm using spacemacs but presumably it's emacs knowledge that's required here.
I have a JSON file with a single long line, let's say this JSON from json.org/example:
{"menu": {"id": "file", "value": "File", "popup": {"menuitem": [{"value": "New",…
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Different indentation styles for different projects
I work on many different C projects with unique indentation styles. How do I get Emacs to do per-project indentation settings without polluting the upstream project trees with .dir-locals.el files? I want to match the projects using their paths on…
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Is there any SMIE documentation that is clear?
I've spent many, many hours now trying to get any sort of SMIE indentation rule/grammar/thing working.
Are there any examples of a small, toy or skeleton SMIE-based mode with documentation on how it actually works, or any discussion anywhere about…
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How to indent keywords aligned?
Probably influenced by Clojure, I more often use property lists as data-structures. Emacs most of the time indents them like this,
`(:token ,token
:token-quality ,quality) ,
while this is what I would prefer
`(:token ,token
…
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Completely disable all auto-indentation
How do I completely disable all auto-indentation in Emacs? I need to disable it at least for Fundamental mode, but I'm fine with it being disabled globally for the current session.
Please read the rest of this question before declaring it a…
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Automatically re-indenting elisp code when adding or removing code before an indented block
Say I have a elisp code like:
(+ 2 3▮(+ 3
4))
Is there a way to automatically re-indent the sexp after the cursor, when I add or remove symbols?
So after pressing SPC 4 SPC, I would automatically get:
(+ 2 3 4 ▮(+ 3
4))
I…
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How to indent items in LaTeX/AUCTeX itemize environments?
Q: how can I get "proper" indentation of LaTeX itemize environments in auctex?
Here's where I'd like to be with an item in an itemize environment:
\item line is indented two spaces relative to the beginning of the environment
continuation lines in…
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Correct indentation for wrapped lines
I have the following wrapped text, especially when you use a lot of windows:
I'm wondering if the indentation of wrapped text could be changed like in Vim:
When figuring out, it seems the AutoFillMode is responsible for this. I was hoping this…
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Set indentation for shell script function
I am trying to set the number of spaces per indent for starting a new function in sh-mode (bash sub-mode). I have tried setting:
'(sh-basic-offset 2)
'(sh-indentation 2)
'(smie-indent-basic 2)
(as shown in custom-set-variables in .emacs) and some…
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How to set indent to 4 spaces in nxml-mode?
I wanted to indent my XML files with 4 spaces.
I tried to google it, and found this and this one.
But they seem pretty old and/or didn't help me.
This post is great about how to pretty print XML files, but gives no hint how to set indent to a…
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Navigate by indentation
I want to navigate between the lines of a file based on indentation. The file is structured by indentation: a line that's more indented than the previous line is a child of the previous line, a line that has the same indentation as the previous line…
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How to auto-format the source code block in org-mode
When I'm using org-mode to take notes about a book, sometimes I'll copy/paste some code snippets into the note file. After pasting it, I'll
1. `C-c '` to call `org-edit-special`
2. `C-x h` to mark all the source code
3. `TAB` to format it
Is there…
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How to customize org-mode indentation?
this question actually arises because I like to use non-monospaced fonts, (Sabon, Minion, Garamond, etc.) This cause a problem when use org-indent-mode, since the text under the headlines are now not aligned with the headlines. Example:
The font is…
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Coloring indentation levels
Consider the following two snapshots: The first below is coming from Emacs on Python mode (with Jedi & Elpy)
This second one below comes from manually photoshopping the previous one to make it easier to distinguish between so many indentation…
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