Re: Emacs indenting script

[Trevor Daniels]

Mats, you wrote Monday, December 21, 2009 12:40 PM


> I tried it here and it works well.
> Try the following:
>
> - Start emacs with the scm file:
> emacs myfile.scm &
>
> - If Emacs just shows a welcoming screen, press CTRL-g.
>
> - On the status line towards the bottom of the window, it should 
> say
>    myfile.scm   ...      (Scheme)  ....
>  If it doesn't say "(Scheme)", but for example "(Fundamental)", 
> then it means that your Emacs installation doesn't automatically 
> load the Scheme mode for .scm files (as far as I know, Emacs 
> should do it by default).
>
> - If it indeed says (Scheme), try to run
> CTRL-x h
> ALT-x indent-region
>  and verify that it corrects the indentation of the file.
>
> If all this works, I have no idea why the batch version doesn't.

Thanks Mats - it does indeed all work, so I need
to investigate the batch version further.

Actually, with this simple recipe I hardly need
the batch version :)

Trevor