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Which is an example of indentation in Emacs?
For example, if you usually use spaces ( (indent-tabs-mode nil)) to indent, and the project you’re working on uses tabs, then you can add a .dir-locals.el to the root directory of the project to make Emacs treat files in the project specially. Here’s an example .dir-locals.el that uses tabs and highlights leading spaces to keep you honest:
Why is AutoTab confused by different indentation styles?
Autotab is fairly clever, but can get confused from time to time, in particular by that have been inconsistently maintained using different indentation styles.
How to change Vim indentation behavior by file type?
The initial call to autocmd! tells vim to delete any previously defined autocommands in said grouping. This will prevent duplicate definition if .vimrc is sourced again. See the :help augroup for more info.
How to merge tab width and indentation in Emacs?
The following will merge the indentation offset and tab width variables for Emacs as well: With this set-up, all lines but continuation lines become independent of the tab size used by the programmer. To fix continuation lines too, see SmartTabs. The following two commands will be useful when looking at the examples below:
Is it possible to insert a tab in Emacs?
People new to Emacs often feel like they just want to insert a tab. This is of course possible, but discouraged. Why make Emacs dumber than it is? Emacs can figure out how much indentation you need and do the right thing! Remember, often the indentation engines of major modes can be customized.
Is it OK to indent tabs in Python 2?
Mixed use of tabs and spaces for indentation is strongly discouraged for Python 2 and an error in Python 3. The major modes described at PythonMode will normally handle this: they will guess the per-level indentation used in Python source (but may be used to override an incorrect guess) and they will also set ‘indent-tabs-mode’ to ‘nil’.
What’s the default number of spaces in Emacs?
They make it 4 spaces by default to comply with pep8, but if you prefer to have your own default value, you can change it via that variable. Lastly, we set the evil-shift-width to our custom tab width variable.