Contents
Should I use tab to indent?
Using Tab to indent the first line of a paragraph in a Word document is inefficient and unnecessary. By setting a simple option, you can skip Tab and go right to typing text. Most of the time, I press Tab to indent the first line of a new paragraph.
How do I indent code in emacs?
Move to the end of the block you want to indent and set the mark by pressing C-SPC . Move the cursor to the first line of the block, and indent this line however far you want all the lines in the block to be indented. Press M-C-\ . The text in the marked block will now be reformatted.
How do I indent a region in emacs?
Steps to do indentation interactively.
- Select the region to be indented.
- C-x TAB .
- Use arrows (← and →) to indent interactively.
- Press Esc three times when you are done with the required indentation.
How to indent 2 spaces in Emacs Stack Exchange?
I am using emacs web-mode, and the tabbing in JS files seems to be acting strangely. I have tab set to indent 2 spaces, but when the indent reaches 8 spaces, web-mode turns them into a tab, and then continues to tab 2 spaces until in reaches another 8, and converts that into another tab, etc.
Can you use spaces and tabs in indentation?
In general, if you want indentation to use spaces only, I would recommend customizing: This forces indentation to use spaces and no tabs. I’m not sure if web-mode uses the regular methods for indentation though, so it may not respect this. Can you give an example file to demonstrate?
How to set the width of a tab in Emacs?
This will set the width that a tab is displayed to 2 characters (change the number 2 to whatever you want) As an aside, the default for emacs when backspacing over a tab is to convert it to spaces and then delete a space. This can be annoying.
Why does Emacs Backspace one space at a time?
Emacs has a strange default behavior when backspacing tabs. Instead of backspacing the whole tab, it backspaces the tab one space at a time. You can fix that in the following way. The Smart-tabs-mode package helps Emacs indent with tabs and align with spaces in various languages. I personally don’t use it, but it might tickle your fancy.