Emacs indentation

Miarld · 10-15-2009, 08:54 AM

Hello
I'm trying to get used to advanced text editors. I've started with vim, and now switched to emacs. However, emacs indentation drives me crazy. Things like

Code:

int main(void)
{
    ...
    if (n == 1)
      {
       ...

and so on

I just want it to be similar like VIM's:

Code:

 99 ········set expandtab "no real tabs, spaces instead
102 ········set softtabstop=4 " when hitting tab or backspace, how many spaces
103                         "should a tab be (see expandtab)
104 ········set tabstop=8···"real tabs should be 8, and they will show with
106 ········set autoindent
107 ········set smartindent
108
109 ········set listchars=tab:··
110 ········set list

so the code will look like

Code:

  7 int main(void)
  8 {
  9     int a, b, num = 0, errors, i;
 10
 11     srand(time(NULL));
 12
 13     while (true)
 14     {
 15         errors = 0;
 16
 17         for (i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
 18         {
 19             a = rand() % 10;
 20             b = rand() % 10;

and it can be handy to emphasis real tabs too. Also when I hit enter, I want emacs to place the cursor in the same indentation position (106 ········set autoindent).

Thank you for your attention.

indienick · 10-15-2009, 09:01 AM

I'm a big fan of Emacs, but when you newline, you can hit tab to bring your cursor over to the indentation position, or you can just type out your next statement, and when you type in any of the "(", "{", "[" or ";" characters, it will automatically indent it for you.

Here's a link to the Emacs manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ma...acs/index.html