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 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 ...
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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 ...
