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Thanks a lot! Yeah, I'm already realizing I need to be careful what I wish for, because I can't tab complete anymore after C-x C-f. I think I'm going to follow

Thanks a lot! Yeah, I'm already realizing I need to be careful what I wish for, because I can't tab complete anymore after C-x C-f. I think I'm going to follow the process outlined by CyberShadow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29726398#29728696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29726398#29728696. I'm not hung up on getting this perfectly automated, just want to not have to think about this the next time I run into it. I think I can now give Emacs another try!

tabemacsthrow 5y ago
Someone above pointed out that you can remap it for prog-mode which (I think) programming modes derive from so (again, I think) if you remapped it there you would cover the programming modes. Then you could add the few other modes that aren't covered. You would define a list of the modes and loop over them in your init.el to remap them. The other thing you might want to try is to remap the function indent-for-tab-command to insert-tab.
- akkartik 5y ago
  No! I've somehow never encountered `tab-always-indent`, according to my detailed past records. It actually looks like `(setq tab-always-indent nil)` should get me pretty close, according to the documentation. "If the value is t (the default), the command normally just indents the current line. If the value is nil, the command indents the current line only if point is at the left margin or in the line’s indentation; otherwise, it inserts a tab character." (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Mode_002dSpecific-Indent.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Mo...) Unfortunately this doesn't immediately work as described (Mac OS, GNU Emacs 27.2). When the buffer x.c looks like this (^ showing point): int main(void) { aaa ^ Pressing Tab now does nothing. I wonder if I need to do something to add this to c-major-mode. I also don't yet understand `setq-default`.
  - tabemacsthrow 5y ago
    In the docs it says that (for some reason) C has its own separate variable c-tab-always-indent. Also, does M-i (tab-to-tab-stop) do what you want?
    - akkartik 5y ago
      Ah, yes, this ([c-]tab-always-indent) seems to work. On both my machines. I'm slightly leery of declaring victory, but this might do the trick for me. I think the major reason I care about this so much (I don't have any unique-snowflake indentation approach) is being able to indent prose inside comments. This approach would buy me that. Let me run with it and see how it goes. Thanks again.
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  - tabemacsthrow 5y ago
    We've hit comment depth limit, but check out M-i (tab-to-tab-stop), other people seem to declare that that is the solution for them (and they rebind it to tab per mode).
    - akkartik 5y ago
      Thanks! I'll do that. I plan to carefully try each of the solutions mentioned in this thread. (FYI, you can always get around the comment reply timer (I don't think it's a depth limit) by clicking on a comment's permalink (timestamp).)

tabemacsthrow 5y ago

Someone above pointed out that you can remap it for prog-mode which (I think) programming modes derive from so (again, I think) if you remapped it there you would cover the programming modes. Then you could add the few other modes that aren't covered. You would define a list of the modes and loop over them in your init.el to remap them. The other thing you might want to try is to remap the function indent-for-tab-command to insert-tab.

akkartik 5y ago
No! I've somehow never encountered `tab-always-indent`, according to my detailed past records. It actually looks like `(setq tab-always-indent nil)` should get me pretty close, according to the documentation. "If the value is t (the default), the command normally just indents the current line. If the value is nil, the command indents the current line only if point is at the left margin or in the line’s indentation; otherwise, it inserts a tab character." (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Mode_002dSpecific-Indent.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Mo...) Unfortunately this doesn't immediately work as described (Mac OS, GNU Emacs 27.2). When the buffer x.c looks like this (^ showing point): int main(void) { aaa ^ Pressing Tab now does nothing. I wonder if I need to do something to add this to c-major-mode. I also don't yet understand `setq-default`.
- tabemacsthrow 5y ago
  In the docs it says that (for some reason) C has its own separate variable c-tab-always-indent. Also, does M-i (tab-to-tab-stop) do what you want?
  - akkartik 5y ago
    Ah, yes, this ([c-]tab-always-indent) seems to work. On both my machines. I'm slightly leery of declaring victory, but this might do the trick for me. I think the major reason I care about this so much (I don't have any unique-snowflake indentation approach) is being able to indent prose inside comments. This approach would buy me that. Let me run with it and see how it goes. Thanks again.
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- tabemacsthrow 5y ago
  We've hit comment depth limit, but check out M-i (tab-to-tab-stop), other people seem to declare that that is the solution for them (and they rebind it to tab per mode).
  - akkartik 5y ago
    Thanks! I'll do that. I plan to carefully try each of the solutions mentioned in this thread. (FYI, you can always get around the comment reply timer (I don't think it's a depth limit) by clicking on a comment's permalink (timestamp).)