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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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Disable indentation in all modes

Every mode in Emacs has its own rules for indentation. I don't want that. How can I disable it and have custom indentation rules for every mode? …
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Indentation of newlines

I am writing source code and a lot of times I need to press Enter and have the newline indented with 4 spaces more than the previous. As I don't want to do it always, I would like to be able to use C- …
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Confusion by the usage of indent-tabs-mode nil

I use (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) in my init file so to avoid using TABs but when I write some files (like C++ files) then it allows me to insert TABs if I am in an if-statement for example. W …
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Python and aggressive-indent

I am trying to use aggressive-indent, which I find great, but when I am writing Python code it doesn't seem to work (although general it works fine). I may miss something in the usage of aggressive-in …
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Indentation after braces in C

I don't know what the formal name of it is (this being one of the reasons that I can't find how to achieve it). But, what I want is to make Emacs start the second bracket with the same amount of space …
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Weird indentation behavior in C++ mode

In C++ mode there is the following behavior of the indentation: Why is this happening? How can I fix it? …
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