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How to set indent to 4 spaces in nxml-mode?
I finally found it in this issue.
(setq nxml-child-indent 4 nxml-attribute-indent 4)
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How to make emacs align and indent a bibtex entry?
When the cursor is somewhere in the entry, run the command bibtex-fill-entry (bound to C-c C-q), which will
align the fields. You may also want to set variable bibtex-align-at-equal-sign to a non nil ...
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Org-mode : disable indentation when promoting and demoting trees + subtrees
Set the variable org-adapt-indentation to nil. The default value is t, which means:
When this variable is set, Org assumes that you write outlines by
indenting text in each node to align with the ...
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Set indentation for shell script function
Setting sh-basic-offset to the required indentation is what is needed - but what I didn't realise is, it's also necessary to close and reopen all shell script files before the customisation takes ...
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How to indent without the two extra spaces at the beginning of code blocks in org mode?
Try to customize org-edit-src-content-indentation. I think by default it is set to 2. I think this is what controls that behavior.
However, if you put (setq org-src-preserve-indentation t) in your ...
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no html/jsx indentation in jsx-mode
This is a known issue and as of now, it has not been fixed. I've decided to forego jsx-mode for this reason and just use web-mode. It has support for JSX and is better suited for mixed content files.
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How to detect tabs or spaces in Emacs
By default I want all indentation (when I hit the tab key) to be 2 spaces.
This can be achieved for many modes with settings such as
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil
tab-stop-list ...
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Why does org-mode not indent content under headings when I press tab?
Org's indentation behaviour is controlled by the org-adapt-indentation variable. It can be set to three states:
t: Adapt indentation for all lines
headline-data: Adapt indentation for headline data ...
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no html/jsx indentation in jsx-mode
FYI for anyone else who comes across this issue, this is because this jsx-mode project is not made to edit Facebook's React JSX templates but rather this other compiled javascript language also called ...
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formatting constexpr if in c++-mode
UPDATE: That pretest version that I put down there in the original question (emacs-26.0.90.tar.gz) had a bug that cause certain infinity loops while parsing the buffer, specifically when using the <...
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Indentation in square brackets
Setting LaTeX-begin-regexp and LaTeX-end-regexp does not help here because inside LaTeX-indent-level-count it searches a backslash before checking the regexp.
I got it working by modifying TeX-brace-...
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Trouble adjusting tab-width
The first line when enabling python-mode is (set (make-local-variable 'tab-width) 8). Because tab-width is a buffer-local variable, a new value would need to be set subsequent to the code above. The ...
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How to customize org-mode indentation?
Somehow I couldn't get the other answers to work for my setup, but the fastest and easiest fix that worked for me was:
`M-x customize-face org-hide`
Then, just change the Font Family attribute to ...
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Change the behaviour of RET (with electric indent) to only indent the new line, not the previous one
I think you'll get what you want with
(setq-default electric-indent-inhibit t)
This was meant as a variable for major-modes (rather than for users), but it should take care of your use-case as well.
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Why does Emacs indent my Lisp LOOP construct weirdly?
You can use indentation provided by a SLIME contribution:
(require 'slime-cl-indent)
You may want to add that to the list slime-contribs- see Loading Contribs in the SLIME manual.
One can add it to ...
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css-mode: use tabs and not spaces
The built-in CSS mode should support this just fine by giving indent-tabs-mode a non-nil value.
Note that spaces will still be used for padding if the number of indentation spaces isn't a multiple of ...
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Emacs: indentation takes 4 spaces instead of 2
See this answer to a similar question. That answer doesn't answer that question, because it is about Ruby mode not respecting such code. But it likely does answer your similar question.
This is that ...
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Confusion about space and tab characters in Emacs
Like most things in emacs, the tabs policy is configurable. It sounds to me that you'd like to follow the most common apporach and use the tab key as an indentation tool and not have tab characters in ...
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How to indent keywords aligned?
Intro to calculate-lisp-indent
A better solution is to override the function calculate-lisp-indent. In brief, calculate-lisp-indent is a function that returns the column to which a line at point ...
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Navigate by indentation
This feature exists in Emacs. Outline mode describes a document as containing heading lines with a level, and has facilities to move among levels. We can define every line as a heading line with a ...
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Weird indentation behavior in C++ mode
It's not weird; std: could be a label and until you type the second : it doesn't know otherwise.
Edit: I forgot to mention, but you can customize c-default-style to choose a different indentation ...
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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. The help for this ...
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Customized c-offsets-alist override c-file-style in dir-locals
Instead of modifying c-offsets-alist, you can modify c-file-offsets whose purpose is to set offsets via file local variables.
A small example for a .dir-locals.el file:
((nil . ((fill-column . 80)))
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Extra indentation for argument lists beginning on a new line
Set point on the line in question and press C-c C-s to call c-show-syntactic-information. This shows you which variable you need to set.
I set this to:
(c-offsets-alist . (
(arglist-intro . c-...
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Can’t guess python-indent-offset - delete warning when local file variable
The error message is controlled by the python-indent-guess-indent-offset-verbose variable.
Since the variable is file-local, you should be able to disable it globally if you put the following in your ...
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Emacs auto-indenting comments in an unhelpful manner
Unable to post this as a comment, but the indentation is likely part of one of the active modes (probably lisp-mode based on your description).
You can do M+x describe-modes to see which modes are ...
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Emacs script to indent files from the command line
@glucas's answer is correct in its diagnosis, but has a minor problem (you want the 0th element of argv) and is incomplete. Here is a more complete example:
#!/usr/bin/env -S emacs --script
(find-...
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How to add four spaces selected region
I think indent-rigidly (C-x TAB or C-x C-i, see footnote) can help you.
indent-rigidly is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
`indent.el'.
It is bound to C-x TAB.
(indent-rigidly ...
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