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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ctrl-backspace behaves differently across emacs environments, though .init file is same
I recently needed to start using another mac for work and I wanted to duplicate my spacemacs settings onto my new computer. I simply copied all files located in .emacs onto my new computer, and it ...
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Python indent region is wrong
Given the code:
def main(args=None):
if args is None:
args = sys.argv[1:]
load_data()
Calling indent-region on the code (under python mode), the output would be:
def main(args=None):
...
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Can we do `C-c >` and `>` and `>` to continue indentation
I am using following answer to handle indentations Emacs bulk indent for Python
C-c > or C-c C-l shifts the region 4 spaces to the right
C-c < or C-c C-r shifts the region 4 spaces to the left
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adaptive-wrap-prefix-mode behavior is different/inconsistent inside a buffer
in org-mode I have adaptive-wrap-prefix-mode on.
The indentation though has a inconsistent behavior.
I have already tried to toggle visual-line-mode and word wrap but the sometimes correct and ...
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Javascript mode mixes tabs and spaces for indent
My javascript mode indents with a mix of tabs and spaces. I'm ok with the mix if spaces are used for cosmetic alignment, but this is just wrong:
First level of indentation is spaces, second is tab, ...
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Wrong indentation of block directives in rst-mode
I'm having issues with indentation of block directives in rst-mode.
Colons in the directives are always indenting, and I always have to backspace to
get it back on the right line.
But even backspace ...
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How to set indentation in cperl mode
Here is the code:
$app->helper('turizm_images__get_validation_params' => sub{
my $c = shift;
my $config = $c->config('upload');
Is it possible to ...
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How to set js-mode indent in Emacs >= 27.1
I have my tab width set to two spaces and this has worked fine for many years. I have just upgraded to Emacs 27.1, and now js-mode is displaying tabs as three spaces wide, ignoring my preferred ...
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Indentation by using AST from external program
I'm pondering over doing indentation by using an AST created with an
external (non-emacs) tool. But so far I do not really know where to
start. Are there emacs packages which already did this? Any ...
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SMIE: if-elseif-else constructs
I'm struggling with teaching SMIE how to handle if-elseif-else constructs correctly.
In the following test file the indentation of the last line, i.e. xoxox;, is wrong.
I suppose something's wrong ...
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Maintaining consistent visual fill column under `org-indent-mode`
How can one enable org-indent-mode (or otherwise indent content to Org headings) while still maintaining a consistent visual fill column?
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Indentation for typeclass in coq mode
In coq-mode for typeclasses in shifts the braces:
Class Group G : Type :=
{
e : G;
mult : G -> G -> G;
inv : G -> G;
}.
Is it possible to disable the braces indentation and ...
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Indentation with uniform initialization spanning several lines
This is how the following line is currently indented for me:
std::array<int, 4> arr { 54, 37,
54, 37 };
However, I would like it to be indented like this:
std::array<int, 4> arr { 54, ...
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SMIE — Indentation After Comments
I've written a very simple mode using SMIE (see code below) that produces some weird indentation after comments that I do not understand. Here is an example:
int a /**/ ;
int b;
int a /**/;
int ...
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elisp mode set tab width to 2 spaces
My global tab-width is set to 4. But in elisp-mode I get 6 spaces per tab in indentation. So the code after auto indenting looks like this:
(defun new-eshell ()
(interactive)
(when (one-...
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yas-expand doesn't trigger reindent in aggressive-indent-mode
I'm trying to make a call to yas-expand doesn't trigger aggressive-indent. I'm guessing this is because yas-expand, for some reason, doesn't trigger a call to after-change-functions into which ...
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How to NOT Auto Indent when a specific Character is inputted?
So I recently encountered a problem programming in C that whenever I enter the left parenthesis character, (, Emacs auto-idents the code.
[4 spaces here]DATA *SeqQueueOut(
I know that there is this ...
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How to set python indent offset to 2 spaces in elpy emacs?
I use elpy package for Python 3 in Emacs. It uses yapf to format a Python buffer. I have tried about everything, setting tab-width to 2 and setting python-indent-offset to 2 but nothing makes it so ...
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Unexpected indentation in python chunks
Already one year ago, I described a problem on github with polymode and unexpected indents. Since there was no answer there so far and the problem is really annoying, I ask here for ideas for a ...
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Change `standard-indent` for 1 specific major mode
I author web apps with the web-mode in GNU Emacs, and I use 2 spaces for indentation.
After I examined the web-mode source, I found out that the mode defaults to the standard-indent variable, which in ...
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Apropriately indent multi-line x=($()) in shell-script-mode?
Bash allows capturing output of a subshell as elements of an array line-by-line with the construct
IFS=$'\n'
myArray=($(someCommand))
However, auto-indentation fails to produce a useful result for ...
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How to append spaces to align by next word in the line above
I am looking for a function helping indenting imports.
I noticed following pattern.
Origin file:
import A.B.C (x, y, z)
Result file:
import qualified A.B.C (x, y, z)
import ...
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C++ mode, indendation confusion
Today I realized something odd that bothers me. Here is a little example of a function I wrote. I am using armadillo, but that is is unimportant. Here, the indentation looks just fine.
float GetE0()
{
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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 ...
