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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 `indent-relative`

If you want to use tab-to-tab-stop, just do so! tab-to-tab-stop and indent-relative are different functions, designed to do different things. Different modes will bind one or the other (or something e …
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Python cycling through indentation

If you follow through the code of indent-for-tab-command, you'll see the indentation is actually done by a indent-line-function. In Python mode, this is python-indent-line-function. …
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Manual indentation in LaTeX mode

this: (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode t indent-line-function 'tab-to-tab-stop tab-width 4))) If you're still getting automatic indentation
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Indentation of description lists

It's not documented in the manual, but its documentation string reads: Maximum indentation for the second line of a description list. … When the indentation would be larger than this, it will become 5 characters instead. …
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Org-mode : disable indentation when promoting and demoting trees + subtrees

Set the variable org-adapt-indentation to nil. … You can change the value via M-x customize-variable org-adapt-indentation. …
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Mapping RET to use the same indentation level as the previous line

Indentation is done using the value of ‘indent-line-function’. In programming language modes, this is the same as TAB. …
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New line and indent without electric mode

In a terminal the value of [(return)] doesn't apply. You need to use (kbd "RET") instead. (or probably other variations would do, but not [(return)]).
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How to define global key binding for `C-c >` and `C-c <` using `defhydra`

Then you just need to define the hydra in the mode-map for that mode: (defhydra python-indent (my-mode-map "C-c") "Adjust python indentation." (">" python-indent-shift-right "right") ("<" python-indent-shift-left …
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Unexpected indentation in python chunks

In order for polymode to know what mode you're in, and what the appropriate indentation for that mode is, it needs to know the mode of the current span, and, most crucially here, what the extent of that … They are unwanted by you, but necessary to bring the indentation out to match the beginning of [SessionName]. …
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