Re: Auto-indent new lines?

[Mark Newby]

No, it doesn't.  I've tried opening a .c file and it doesn't work in that
either --all I get is the TAB key turned off, which is so anoying.  Surely
this is basic behaviour of any coding environment, yet it's not even
supported in what's meant to be the best editor in the world!  I need it to
do it in shell script, html, perl, etc, in fact, doing it in all files would
be ideal --why isn't it default?  Maybe I should ask for it to be...

Doesn't anybody write code in Emacs?  What should I use instead then?


Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>
To: "Mark Newby" <mark.newby@ntlworld.com>
Cc: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>; "G Annamalai" <gannam@india.dharma.com>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Auto-indent new lines?


> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:34:13AM -0000, Mark Newby wrote:
> > Thanks for trying to help, but it hasn't changed its behaviour at all.
I've
> > added the lines you gave me to /home/mark/.emacs and logged in as mark,
> > fired up emacs with a .txt file and it still doesn't auto indent new
lines
> > to the indentation of the current line when I hit RET.  I've even tried
> > setting the mode to html with M-x html-mode --all that does is turn off
the
> > TAB key --very unhelpful behaviour if you ask me.  I can't find a
> > /root/.emacs, but guess it's the /etc/skel/.emacs, but that doesn't work
> > either.
>
> I don't believe that it will work in a .txt file. The answer given to
> you works well if you are coding in C, C++, and Java.
>
>  - v
> --
> Victor R. Cardona
> vcardona@home.com
>
>                 "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon
>                   code warrior that ever lived!"
>