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 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 ...
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Can’t guess python-indent-offset - delete warning when local file variable
I have this comment that I write in my python file
# -*- Mode: Python; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; python-indent-offset: 2 -*-
# vim:set et sts=4 ts=4 tw=80:
But when I load a python file, ...
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unexpected long indent after colon in web-mode
I have some trouble locating the source of 8 tabs and 3 spaces more than the previous indentation when I'm inside js inside web-mode. These appear after a line that ends with a colon. Example (note ...
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Indent forwards a tree structure
I have such a structure in my org note
**** pstree
* ~ $ pstree -aps 26955
systemd,1 splash
└─systemd,1947 --user
└─gnome-terminal-,2710
└─bash,1775
└─emacs,25135
...
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How do I suppress indentation after labels in Groovy?
I'm writing some Groovy code, and in my unit tests I have something like the following:
def testFoo(){
given:
//setup statement 1
//setup statement 2
//...
when:
//Execute ...
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Emacs indents C++ functions in structs in an unexpected way
Emacs indents functions in structs in the following way:
struct A {
int a() {
return 1;
}
int b()
{
return 2;
}
}
int c() {
return ...
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highlight-indent-guides-mode
I'm trying to activate highlight-indent-guides-mode by default but it is not working.
If i do M-x highlight-indent-guides-mode it works fine but adding (highlight-indent-guides-mode 1) to my .emacs ...
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How to set tabulator size in the awk mode?
After installing a new kubuntu (16.04) and emacs (25.2.2) I have had indentation problems. It seems like indentation default values have changed or maybe I am missing some configuration file? ...
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Babel + Python function definition with for loop causes IndentationError
I am using orgmode and Babel to run Python source code blocks.
I noticed that if I define a function that returns a value, and if this function has a for loop inside it, then evaluating it with Babel ...
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Automatic re-indentation
I'm using Emacs to write ocaml programs, and the automatic indentation works fine : suppose I write if in the middle of a line, then skip a line and write then ; the keyword then is automatically ...
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Customizing indentation style for continuation lines?
I would like to customize the "k&r" indentation style, so that continuation lines are indented 8 spaces, like this:
if (first
&& second) { // <- 8 spaces.
third();
}
--
...
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Confusion about space and tab characters in Emacs
I am confused by space (SPC) and TAB characters in Emacs.
I am often using the default fundamental mode.
When I select a region and indent the lines in the region by C-u 9 C-x TAB, I intend to ...
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Prevent spacemacs from splitting lines of C++ code
I installed the c-c++ layers in Spacemacs. When I invoke indent-region, Spacemacs splits lines that are longer than 80 characters. How can I prevent this behavior?
auto-fill-mode is not enabled and ...
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Strange comment indentation results
I am working with a simple major mode. The format has one single line comment delimiter, i.e., %. However, I get strange results when running fill-paragraph on a comment. Specifically, the result I ...
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Unexpected indentation in backquoted list starting with comma function call
When I write a backquotedlist that starts with ,( emacs aligns the remaining items to the parenthesis and not to the comma; e.g.:
(defun kb-test1 ()
`(,(hello)
fdefef
,(fefesd)))
(...
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Automatically indent ONLY logical lines in Org-mode
I want this:
** This is a heading
This is a logical line. But, because I have visual-line-mode on, lines
will wrap at the edge, as is just and godly. But, such elegant formatting
as you see here ...
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c++ mode indentation
If we have a class like the one below emacs is indenting the : (to the initialization list). To be able to match some other editor, is it possible in emacs to indent the : like below?
class Test
{
...
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Why does emacs sh-mode ignore indent-tabs-mode?
sh-mode won't care if indent-tabs-mode is on, it will still insert spaces instead of tabs! Can this be fixed?
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Emacs: indentation takes 4 spaces instead of 2
When I write code in Emacs and press Return, the indentation is automatically set to 4 spaces even if I set it yo 2:
(setq tab-width 2) ; or any other preferred value
(defvaralias 'c-basic-offset ...
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formatting of elisp file is different in emacs and other text editor
I'm having an issue with formatting in that when I'm in emacs, the formatting looks fine:
but when the file is viewed with a different text editor, the spaces are different.
this only occurs in the ...
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#ifdef __cplusplus nuisance: How to prevent extra indenting?
If you ever wrote header files that have to be used by both C compiler and C++ compiler, you'd encounter this particular ifdef. This construct causes one to insert extra curly braces in the header ...
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How to configure C-M-q and TAB key to expand pre-existing TAB characters into spaces in C/C++ files
In C and C++ files, I want to configure the mode so that any time I request indentation, that it will always expand all of the embedded TAB characters in indentation (at the start of the line, and no ...
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Disable `indent-relative`
What's the right way to disable Emacs' default indent-relative behaviour and make sure that TAB always indents by a single level (be it a tab or whitespace character)?
There doesn't seem to much ...
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How to prevent losing indentation when editing JavaScript code within HTML files in Emacs?
When I edit JavaScript code which exists in an HTML file, I lose code indentation whenever I press Enter.
first line of code:
second line of code # Press Enter here
Result after pressing Enter:
...
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cuda .cu files indentation issue. How i can set indentation for cuda .cu files to 4 spaces?
In my .emacs i have put following for cuda highlighting:
(setq c-default-style '(("c++" . "linux")
(java-mode . "java")
(awk-mode . "awk")
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How to reveal tabs in the indentation in a cpp file?
My friend and I collaborate on a C++ project and we agree to use 4 whiltespaces for indentation. I am using Emacs and this is my indentation setting
(setq-default c-basic-offset 4)
By doing this, I ...
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C++-mode indenting performance depends on length of previous function?
Using c++-mode in emacs23.
UPDATE: In response to some early comments, I tested on emacs24 and emacs25, and see exactly the same behavior. I don't have convenient access to emacs26 or emacs27 (25 ...
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Electric indent: Inserting blank lines with no whitespace while keeping cursor indented?
I do a lot of python coding and am trying to determine if electric indent can be customized to help me with the following scenario:
Let's say my cursor (point) is at the end of the following excerpt, ...
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Unwanted indentation in org + evil
From an org heading, pressing evil o will open a new line that's indented according to the heading (org level + 1 spaces). Can this behaviour be turned off?
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In M-x Info (C-h i), tables are not correctly aligned
Problem
When trying to browse documentation in M-x info ≡ C-h i, the table of contents is not correctly aligned. One would expect
* Introduction This is the etc etc etc etc etc .
* Details ...
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Make emacs to use only tabs for JS indentation
I've set my tabs to 4 and haven't changed any JS indent settings. All the indents I found in the "JavaScript group" have values either 0 or 4, yet the following code
describe('test Info', () => {
...
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JDEE following line indentation
Is there any way to indent the following lines in e.g. a function to less than the opening brace. Instead of
public static void fun(String hello,
String world) { ...
it would ...
