Re: Indenting with 2 spaces

[Philip]

On Nov 3, 10:07 am, Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:15:23 -0700 (PDT), Philip <phil.ganc...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > How can I set the indentation level to 2 spaces in all modes, so that
> > I get (for example) when I press Tab on the second line, I get the
> > following:
>
> > if test "$x"; then
> >   echo yes
> > fi
>
> > Notice there are only 2 spaces before the "echo"
>
> The indentation step is mode specific, so you can't set its value for
> *all* programming modes in one place.  You will have to add a hook to
> those modes you are interested in like:
>
>     ;;; Indentation setup for cc-mode and derivatives.
>
>     (defun keramida/cc-mode-setup ()
>       (interactive)
>       (make-local-variable 'c-basic-offset)
>       (setq c-basic-offset 2))
>
>     (eval-after-load "cc-mode"
>       '(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'keramida/cc-mode-setup))
>
>     ;;; Indentation setup for text-mode and derivatives.
>
>     (defun keramida/text-mode-setup ()
>       (interactive)
>       (make-local-variable 'standard-indent)
>       (setq standard-indent 2))
>
>     (eval-after-load "text-mode"
>       '(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'keramida/text-mode-setup))
>
>     ;; Indentation setup for sh-mode and derivatives.
>
>     (defun keramida/sh-mode-setup ()
>       (interactive)
>       (setq sh-basic-offset 2
>             sh-indentation 2))
>
>     (eval-after-load "sh-mode"
>       '(add-hook 'sh-mode-hook 'keramida/sh-mode-setup))
>
> Note: Using `eval-after-load' to set up the mode-hooks means that your
> average startup time shouldn't increase too much, and Emacs shouldn't
> try to auto-load all the affected modes *every* time it launches.

Thanks! That seems like a big limitation of Emacs that there is no way
to specify all modes at once.