Questions tagged [indentation]
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.
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How to fix indent of multiline dotpaths in javascript
I would like my code to look like this:
this.imgs.push( $('<img>').attr('src', data.src)
.css('position', 'absolute') );
this.imgs[i].css('left', data.x)
....
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Make tabs behavior like in other IDEs
How can I force Emacs to use tab button and TAB character in "normal stupid way"[1], like in nano or VScode or JetBrain's IDEs. All I can find is smart-tabs package and indent-tabs-mode, but ...
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How can I insert some multiline text that respects the indentation at which it is inserted?
I have a function that reads a link from the clipboard and generates a metadata-ful markdown link from it, and inserts it:
(defun night/unt ()
(interactive)
(let* ((link (current-kill 0))
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Emacs auto-indenting comments in an unhelpful manner
New Emacs user here. Hitting enter after a semicolon commented line in any file type (.el and .lisp at the very least) indents the comment in a very unhelpful way that I have to assume is not intended ...
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How to disable `clean-aindent-mode` in spacemacs configuration
I noticed that clean-aindent-mode is messing up the indentation as I am writing python files. Hence, I wanted to disable this mode, at least when using python mode.
I can manually disable this mode, ...
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How to turn off automatic indenting for Org files in a specific folder?
I am using Doom Emacs. I like having indentation for most of my org files, but I have one folder where I want to have org files without indenting, to use for writing documents.
I have already tested ...
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How do I make emacs indent relative to the beginning of the previous line?
Here's how emacs indents e.g. Python code:
a = myfun(b,
c)
I'd like it to be this way:
a = myfun(b,
c)
Reasoning? If I later replace myfun with myfunction, in the first case it becomes:...
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Aligning the colon in multi-line tertiary expressions in C and C++
Suppose I have the following line
double dx = r1 < 1 ? sqrt(r1) - 1 : 1 - sqrt(2 - r1);
I press enter and tab at the colon causing Emacs to align like this:
double dx = r1 < 1 ? sqrt(r1) - 1
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Unable to change emacs python indent
My Emacs's python-indent-offset is fixed at 2, even though I have the below code in my init.el to set it to 4. I used C-h v to describe the variable, it says its value is 2 and default is 4. I removed ...
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Spacemacs gg=G replacing tabs with spaces in org-babel makefile block
I'm using Spacemacs, and my org-mode file contains an org-babel block of Makefile code, which I want to "tangle" so it becomes part of the source code while remaining in sync with the ...
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Auto-indentation for Meteor/spacebars
How do I get Emacs to auto-indent Spacebars blocks when coding with Meteor? Right now, Emacs automatically does this:
{{#each player}}
{{name}}
{{/each}}
instead of this:
{{#each player}}
{{name}}...
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web-mode - PHP code indentation
I have been using Emacs for some time but I am quite new for PHP and Web development. I want to use Emacs as a PHP editor.
I have searched a lot of pages and I have found that many people recommend ...
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Correctly indent whole buffer in auctex wihtout filling
When using AUCTeX to edit LaTeX files you can call LaTeX-fill-buffer to fill the whole buffer and additionally indent everything correctly. However if I am using visual-line-mode (together with ...
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nxml: Indent tag attributes on new lines 4 characters, not below attribute on parent line
I put attributes for XML tags onto a new line when the tag line gets too long:
<flux:field.inline.fal name="settings.image" required="1"
maxItems="1" minItems="0" collapseAll="1"
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Custom indentation blocks in c++-mode?
Is it possible/easy to add custom markers for the start/end of indentation blocks in c++-mode?
I'd like the indentation of a block of code like
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE(SuiteName)
// <<TestCases&...
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Python over-indentation warning E127
elpy (or rather flake8 I suppose) complains about a line over-indented on the line 52 (see below image)
I tried to change this line's begin but no change.
I always use TAB to have the correct ...
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Making input easy to read (Macaulay2)
I am using Emacs to run Macaulay2 (I'm a newbie at both). I have a long input written in an m2 file, which I then press f11 to input to Macaulay2. I would like to make my input more aesthetically ...
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SMIE: bare opener forces “hanging” indent
If I use the default SML mode parser, or other SMIE parsers, and have a rule for if-then-else as an expression form, I get reasonable indentation of
x + if p
then
q
else
...
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SMIE precedence conflict
(defvar foo-smie-grammar
(smie-prec2->grammar
(smie-bnf->prec2
'((exp (exp "+" exp)
(exp "*" exp)
("let" let-decls "in" exp))
(let-decls (let-decls ";" let-...
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How to fix indentation of anonymous structures in function argument position in C?
I've been stumbling upon this constantly.
Suppose that I have a function that accepts a structure, or a pointer to a structure:
struct s {
int n;
char c;
};
void f(struct s *s);
I'd like to ...
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auto intendation on newline doesn't stay at same indentation for python docstring
Ubuntu 19.10
emacs 26.3 from system repos
I do use elpy and evil-mode
In general when I am editing python code, indentation works just fine. However, when I am editing doc-strings, when I type enter ...
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setq in init file not overriding the default for indent-tabs-mode
It works when using setq-default in place of setq or when customizing through C-h v. C-h v reports that it is set in 'C source code'.
I was thinking it might be affected by my c-default-style, but my ...
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Editing mode for OpenBSD .conf files
Can GNU Emacs edit OpenBSD configuration files (/etc/*.conf, curly-brace syntax) with auto-indentation and syntax highlighting?
conf-mode does not seem to handle that syntax in Emacs 26.
c-mode ...
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Always show the last lines with a lower indentation than the first line that's visible in a window
I often find myself scrolling up in a code file to see which context I am in (class/method definition, yaml-key, etc). It would be super handy if I could somehow "freeze" the last lines of each ...
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smie handling of expression prefixes inside its s-expressions
In the SMIE implementation of SML, ! is given the "expression prefix" syntax class. This seems to lead to a strange tokenization, such that its notion of s-expression (e.g.,if-then-else blocks) gets ...
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How to disable autoindent on new line?
I find a lot of questions similar to this, but not one with an answer that matches what I need. I'm using spacemacs in evil mode, and I want "new lines" (done with RET in insert mode, or o or O etc) ...
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Need help with JavaScript `{` indentation
I'd need some guidance with adjusting my indentation settings for js-mode (JavaScript). It should basically look like C/C++'s Stroustrup mode. Most of it works as expected, however there are some ...
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how to differently indent different regions in the same buffer?
I have some scraps of xml and some scraps of scheme in the same buffer
I'd like to indent the xml with svg-mode and scheme with the scheme-mode
I know that org mode can do that but that is ...
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Why is js2-mode changing my indentation level when I type parenthesis
I'm getting started with some JS code in Spacemacs, and trying to get a good indentation level on my method chaining. The trouble is, once I've got an indentation to the place I want it, something (I'...
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web-mode turn off auto indent on yank [duplicate]
How to turn off auto indent on yank in web mode?
As far as I understand, I must call remove-hook with the name of the hook and the function. But how too find them?
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Org ASCII export with indentation preserved
Open your EMACS -Q, enter org mode, and
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setf x '(a b c
d e f))
#+end_src
This is how it will be aligned after org-edit-special (C-c ').
Now ...
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Emacs acting strangely with indentation
So I've recently come back to working with emacs again I mostly write JavaScript in particular React these days and I'm noticing some strange behaviour when trying to indent my code.
it seems the ...
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Indentation of one-line zsh for loops
My EMACS (26.3) thinks the line after
for i (`seq 1 10`) echo $i
should be indented. Is this a bug?
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Generic method to customize indentation?
Is there some method to customize indentation in various Emacs modes, possibly on a per-project level?
Projects can have widely different indentation styles, which can make automatic indentation ...
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How to make backspace respect tab-stops when there is only preceeding white-space?
When pressing backspace, it deletes a single character, however, I would like it to go back the the previous tab-stop level in the case there is only preceding white-space.
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Emacs text-mode as generic, 2-space-<TAB>, plaintext editor: Trouble disabling relative-indent in text-mode, or auto-triggering outline-mode
I need some help getting custom indentation behavior with my .emacs config.
In emacs text-mode / Fundamental Mode, by default a tab will take me to the location of the top line's next word (non ...
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org-indent-mode prevents first-line paragraph indents
I'm a writer (non-programmer) using org-mode mainly for prose notes/planning and writing.
I'm trying to enable first-line paragraph indents for text under Org headings. I discovered paragraph-indent-...
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Emacs occasionally using wrong indent in python
I have a bunch of python files (ie .py files), which I use Emacs to edit. However I keep having the issue where sometimes emacs will indent regions with 8 spaces instead of 4, and I can't figure out ...
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Pressing RET inserts unnecessary whitespace
My Emacs inserts whitespace on the next line if the current line starts with whitespace. IE
a<RET>
<--- whitespace
This happens across modes (python, text-mode, fundamental-mode), ...
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change use-package indentation
I'd like to change use-package's indentation style to look more distinguishable, (more or less) similar like the following indentation style:
(use-package foo
:commands (gah)
:init (setq f 1)
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How to get first nested parameter indented based on outermost function
I would like to get the following cc-mode indentation behavior (c-basic-offset is 4):
outerFunction(innerFunction(
parameter1, parameter2));
However I would like to maintain arglist aligned ...
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Markdown equivalent of `org-indent-mode`?
What's the simplest way of ensuring that the text below a headline in a Markdown file is aligned with the headline? In org-mode you can accomplish this by calling org-indent-mode. Is there a similar ...
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How to prevent indentation from depending on identifier length?
I noticed that a lot of Emacs indentation styles cause the indentation of one line to depend on the length of identifiers in the previous line, for example:
void usage(char* name) {
fprintf(...
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Adjusting indenting for lisp if statements
I am learning common lisp and am trying to follow the style guide suggested by lisp-lang.org. In this style guide is an if statement style that I think makes the code more readable:
(if (cond)
(...
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Indenting LaTeX code for \if \else \fi statements
This is related to this Emacs.SE question.
I use the code from the answer:
(setq LaTeX-begin-regexp "\\(?:begin\\|if@\\)\\b")
(setq LaTeX-end-regexp "\\(?:end\\|else\\|fi\\)\\b")
(defun LaTeX-indent-...
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auto-fill-mode without automatic indentation
Is it possible to prevent auto-fill-mode from automatically indenting new lines according to the previous? I would like new lines to begin at column 0 regardless of the previous line's indentation.
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Add whitespace as indentation with `indent-region`
When using indent-region, emacs will indent code and leave bank spaces untouched. It seems to me that the majority prefer to delete whitespace. However I prefer white space indented with the code. An ...
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Insert “indent” regardless of mode
When typing docstring in python-mode, I always have issue with indentation. If I am at this point (| is the cursor):
def fn():
"""
Args:|"""
If I press Enter, the cursor will move right below ...
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customize js2-mode switch indentation
This is pretty simple but it's thwarting me:
this is how a switch statement indents in js2-mode
switch(letterGrade){
case "A+":
value = 100 ; break;
case "A":
value = 97 ; break;
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Modifying ruby-mode indentation
Currently, ruby-mode in Emacs 27 indents the following snippets like this:
expect(foo).to match(
bar
)
expect(foo).to \
match(bar)
Is there a way to ...
