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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Bad indentation with tsx
I have a .tsx file and a function that returns some html. It starts like:
return <div className=...
Then at some point I have a component with many arguments so I have to split them vertically. I ...
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C-M-\ fails to indent Lisp code
I follow this tutorial. The code after selecting the region and <Tab> or equivalently C-M-\ in an org file:
(setq trees '(pine fir oak maple)
herbivores '(gazelle antelope zebra))
I would have ...
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How to disable syntactic indentation interactively in php-mode?
I discovered that in php-mode, syntactic indentation makes rigid indentation very slow when the marked region is big. When I disable syntactic indentation, rigid indentation is not slow anymore.
So I ...
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How does SMIE mode determine what the parent of a token is?
I'm writing indentation rules for a custom mode using SMIE.
I want to use smie-rule-parent-p to have different behavior for indenting an empty line depending on context, so inside my indentation ...
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Automatically fixing bad indentation (Scheme-Lisp)
Let's say I make this code with bad formatting: is there an emacs command that can automatically fix indentation? I know this question has been asked a few times before, but all the answers I've seen ...
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Syntax/indentation problems with Vue mode in Emacs 27 nightly
I'm using vue-mode, based on mmm-mode with Emacs 27 nightly from 10/10/2019. Since that Emacs update, I don't get any indentation support in the script section of a Vue file.
Try this file with emacs -...
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How to make the cursor go to the beginning of the line by default when I hit return? [duplicate]
When I hit Enter/Return on my keyboard, the cursor goes to position of character 82 instead of the beginning of the line. This behavior is very confusing to me. Do I need to add something to the ...
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How to remove message `Indentation setup for shell type sh`
I open shell files at startup and often get this in *Messages*:
Setting up indent for shell type sh
Indentation variables are now local.
Indentation setup for shell type sh
All my files cause this ...
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Can I use “comment-column” for comments in other modes than emacs-lisp-mode?
Emacs-lisp-mode distinguishes multiple kinds of comments.
; is an "end of line" comment when following code, or a "right-margin" comment obeying comment-column when indented with indent-for-tab-...
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Unusual behavior when overriding `calculate-lisp-indent'
I've modified calculate-lisp-indent as a better solution to the indentation questions here, here and here. By "modified" I mean I overrode the function with advice. After doing this when I restarted ...
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Why is my Python indentation set to 8 locally by default?
I'm running Emacs 25.2.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 for WSL. I launch emacs -q and open a new Python file, test.py. As soon as I hit the Tab key, I notice the indentation is 8 spaces instead of 4. I don't like ...
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How can I represent a 4 spaces indent width as 2 spaces?
For clarity: I mean indents as represented by individual spaces, not tab characters.
I'm working with a friend on a javascript project, and while I'm an 80col zealot, he wants to have 4 space indent. ...
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automatic indentation with space like visual studio
Is there any package that covers indentation with space like visual studio?
like,
if(a==b) ==> if(a<space>==<space>b)
for(int i=0;i<N;i++) ==> for(int i<space>=<space&...
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sh-mode: Correctly indent and highlight inside bash's subshell substitution $()?
I noticed that bash will correctly apply syntax highlighting inside the subshell substitution in
VALUE="Hello $(echo World)."
But when creating a more complicated value, e.g.
VALUE="Hello $(
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How to change shell-script-mode indentation not to use tabs?
To reproduce my issue, open your .bashrc or a .sh file and type the following:
if
while
echo
The if has no indentation. Good.
The while has the default four spaces of indentation. Good.
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How to stop Emacs from deleting trailing whitespace?
By default, Emacs quietly deletes trailing whitespaces once the user moves on to the next line. To reproduce the issue in plain Emacs, do this:
Start plain Emacs: emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file
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SMIE Indenting Arguments and Blocks
This is closely related to a previous question I asked here:
SMIE Basic Identation and Block Example
However, it is sufficiently different (and already big enough) that I might as
well ask it as a ...
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SMIE Basic Identation and Block Example
I've tried for a while to create a simple major mode that uses SMIE to perform
navigation and indentation, but it seems like even the simple examples that I've
found seems to break quite easily.
The ...
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Does it exists any library and or functionality that provides an API for indenting major modes?
I am currently maintaining a fork of a major mode and I usually get by through reusing snippets other people have written that provides indention for similar languages. However, this does lead to a ...
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How to align “end of line comments” in sh-mode?
I moved to column 60 of the first line and evaluated set-comment-column. Then I moved to the second column and called indent-for-comment, but it indents the comment randomly but not at column 60.
How ...
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Refresh code indentation over a region
I have this:
#!/usr/bin/bash
while read f; do
{
#Try
echo "$f"
}
|| {
# Catch
printf "error"
}
done < "${1:-/dev/stdin}";
And I would like this in one ...
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Annoying indentation bug with ES6 multiline string using js-mode or js2-mode
I am using js2-mode right now.
I am working on a .js file that contain a ES6 multi like string like this:
Vue.component("comment", {
props: {
comment: {
type: Object,
...
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Shift all tags in file to the right
In a .org file, I can align all my tags to the right with C-u C-c C-q.
I'd like more space before text runs into tags in a file.
Is there a variable for the location of the tags column in the org ...
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How to indent inline elements only once?
In this case the basic offset is 4 and tabs mode is enabled.
For example I am getting:
if (! (true // Problem when the value starts inline.
&& false)) {} // I get two tabs, one per '(...
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Adding rule to indentation
A code base I work on has the macro
#define when break; case
to make switch statements 'cleaner'
However this causes problems with indentation,
Is it possible to set the behavior of 'when' to be ...
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How can I get flush left text in org-indent-mode?
I open an org file in emacs and it displays thus:
I enable word wrap with M-x visual-line-mode and get:
But I prefer the extra indenting of headlines provided by org indent mode, so then do M-x org-...
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Align statement breaks on rhs with equal sign
Is there a way to have rhs statement breaks align with the equal sign on the lhs line?
e.g.
some_value = a * b + c
/ some_other_value * x;
becoming
some_value = a * b + c
/ ...
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Custom indentation for macros in C mode
I'm working in a codebase with an extensive use of function macros and I'm having some difficulty finding the correct way to set indentations with them.
Specifically, we pass a lot of statement lists {...
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Breaking up minified html
Is it possible to do this with vanilla emacs? If not what changes do I need to make.
Original test.html
<a id="try_redacted" target="_blank" href="http://redacted.com/game/2d/?try=1" style="right:...
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Convert gnu indent options to emacs indentation settings
I've worked at two places where code is supposed to be indented/formatted according to gnu indent (ie there's a prescribed set of options to gnu indent that's to be used). Is there an easy way to set ...
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Python Documentation String Indent In Auto-Fill Mode (Emacs 26.2)
I've noticed a peculiar behavior when using auto-fill-mode editing Python code. For example if I start typing the following (fill-column is set to 79):
def some_function(keyword_argument0, ...
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How to stop web-mode from reindenting after yank?
I'm editing this code:
callFunction({
x: somearray,
});
Then I want to extract somearray to be a variable with a copy. I cut somearray and delete the colon, then enter (_ is the cursor):
const ...
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How to indent truncated lines?
For me it seems like a really ruff edge that default spacemacs comes without an option to give my lines a correct indentation, when they are wrapped. (Click the first link if you want to see the issue ...
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How do I disable full-buffer indentation after each yank in web-mode?
In editing html/php mix in web-mode, I inserted a single line by a yank 'C-y' and the full buffer (it says region) is re-indented. It takes a large amount of time. It even throws a warning:
"Warning (...
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SML Mode weird indentation
Whenever I hit enter to get to the next line when writing a function for example emacs indents an addition tabs worth of space. I'll try to sketch out the problem:
fun pow(x : int, y : int) =
----...
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Indentation with reader macros: common lisp in emacs
Okay, I'm not sure whether this question is more relevant to Common Lisp, or to Emacs.
I have reader macros in Common Lisp (found them here), that allow the declaration of hash-tables by:
#{'a 'b,
'...
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Evil-mode mixed tabs & spaces indentation
I'm having extreme issues at the moment with evil mode where I am working on Jade/Pug and Stylus files for Node.JS where it is white space sensitive. I installed pug-mode but when you indent via >> ...
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Indentation of description lists
org-mode automatically indents description lists, but it uses two different schemes. For short labels, the second line of the description is aligned with the first character of the description. For ...
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Manual indentation in LaTeX mode
I'm new to Emacs, and dislike the default indentation in LaTeX mode. I want the indentation to do the following:
insert a \t character (not spaces)
be completely manual (I want to have to press Tab ...
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Previous indentation is discarded on newline
Let's say I have the following code:
void foo(){
~
}
I have marked point with ~.
When I press enter the electric indentation works as normal but it doesn't keep the indentation for the previous ...
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How to fix indentation of C++ methods with ref-qualifiers?
Emacs in its default configuration seems to have trouble indenting C++ methods with reference qualifiers (& and &&). For example:
struct foo {
void a_method() && {
...
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Keep text selection after indenting with evil
I'm using emacs with evil key-bindings and I like to know, after getting some text into visual mode, how do you make sure that after hitting >> for indenting the text, the selection is kept, ...
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Can I force erlang-mode to use 4-spaces for indents?
I'm working within a small team writing Erlang. I'm the only developer using Emacs. The Erlang code the rest of the team outputs is indented using multiples of 4 spaces. For example:
...
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Indentation broken with all \input{files.tex}
Everything is in the title :
a master.tex file contains several \input{subfileXX.tex} ;
the indentation works in the master file but not in the subfiles. The TAB key acts like in LibreOffice.
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Indentation: 4 spaces everywhere
This morning, my Emacs changed its indentation rules, and now it indents by 2 spaces, specifically in JS and HTML. It even re-indents code on which I work to 2 spaces, which is unacceptable.
Please ...
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Getting electric indent behaviour for added chars to “electric-indent-chars”
I am trying to get electric indent behaviour in bazel BUILD files. These are essentially python files, although the structure is extremely simple.
Let me give you an example:
cc_binary(
name = "...
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Letting evil >> increment org level
In evil mode, >> increments the indentation level of the current line.
It does so at an org heading too, even though it would be more
appropriate there if it would increase the org level (the ...
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How to control JavaScript indentation?
I am coding in Node.js, each time I want to write something that looks like this:
const product = Factory
.model('App/Models/Product')
.create()
I get this as an output:
const product = Factory
...
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CC mode: make Tab just insert one tab or complete, no auto-indenting
I am dissatisfied with current behaviour of Emacs in CC Mode. I'm not sure if this applies to other major modes, but that's one I'm currently struggling with. Here are my problems:
When I press tab, ...
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Which variable modifies the switch statement indentation on php-mode?
I am currently using php-mode with spacemacs to write in php and recently I noticed this auto-indent behavior, namely pressing TAB.
switch ($cond) {
case "something":
break;
}
Auto indenting ...
