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RE: Displaying tabs
From: |
Deephanphongs, David |
Subject: |
RE: Displaying tabs |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:51:25 -0500 |
Whoops - I interpreted his request in exactly the wrong way.
Again, multiple ways to do it:
Easy way - put this is .emacs file:
(defun eight_spaces ()
(interactive)
(insert " ")
)
(global-set-key '[tab] 'eight_spaces)
You may have to add
(local-set-key '[tab] 'eight_spaces)
to your c-mode-hook.
Note that this will insert eight spaces, not a TAB character..
The harder way is to make sure that all of the indentations
in c-mode use full tabs:
Make sure you are in c-mode (hit "Ctrl-H m" to view the current
mode info).
ESC x set-variable
c-basic-offset
8
(I think this defaults to 8, actually, so you may not have to do it.)
Then look at the help for c-offsets-alist:
Ctrl-h v c-offsets-alist
At the bottom of the help, there should be a list of all of the current
values:
((string . c-lineup-dont-change)
(c . c-lineup-C-comments)
(defun-open . 0)
(defun-close . 0)
(defun-block-intro . +)
(class-open . 0)
(class-close . 0)
(inline-open . 0)
(inline-close . 0)
.....
The first element is the name, the second is the offset.
For every entry that does not have either a "0" or a "+" as an offset,
put (c-set-offset 'name '+) or (c-set-offset 'name '0) - depending on
whether
you want it to tab or not - into your c-mode-hook.
(Mind you, I've seen Tim's latest response, and, frankly, I'm more confused
than ever, now - It does what you want, but it doesn't? You may be better
off
with the easy option..)
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moore, Mathew L [mailto:MooreML@BATTELLE.ORG]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:03 PM
> To: Deephanphongs, David; 'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'
> Cc: 'Timothy M. Schaeffer'
> Subject: RE: Displaying tabs
>
>
> I think Tim is looking for a way to make TAB always display n-spaces.
> Doesn't tab-to-tab-stop simply go to the next tab stop? Example:
>
> abcd<TAB>
>
> Tab goes to column 8 (the next tab-stop).
>
> What would be nice is if <TAB> went to column 12 (tab-width
> of 8 + the 4
> characters 'abcd'). Likewise, if you typed
>
> abcdefg<TAB>
>
> it would be nice if <TAB> moved to column 15, rather than the
> column 8 it
> does with the tab-to-tab-stop.
>
> Once upon a time, I looked for an easy solution to this, but
> couldn't find
> anything. Any help would be great!
>
> --Matt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deephanphongs, David [mailto:david@enikia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:41 AM
> To: 'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'
> Cc: 'Timothy M. Schaeffer'
> Subject: RE: Displaying tabs
>
>
> Three ways:
>
>
> simplist way - turn off c-mode:
> ESC x text-mode
>
>
> Medium way - rebind [TAB]:
> ESC x global-set-key
> TAB
> tab-to-tab-stop
>
>
> hard way - turn off c-mode's indentation - I have no idea how
> to do that completely..
>
> I suspect that you'll have to do this every time you start emacs -
> possibly even for every c-file that you open.
> If you want to avoid that, you'll have to do more stuff:
> For solution 1, remove .c, .cc, .cpp, .h, from the auto-mode-alist
> variable.
> For solution 2, add
> (local-set-key '[tab] 'tab-to-tab-stop)
> to your c-mode-hook..
>
>
> Dave
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Timothy M. Schaeffer [mailto:tim@bsilabs.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:00 AM
> > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Subject: Displaying tabs
> >
> <snip>
>
> > Is there a way to have tabs always displayed as tab-width
> > spaces? I want
> > tabs to be displayed as indentation, always the same size,
> > no matter where
> > on a line it starts. Do I have to modify the sources to do this?
> >
>
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