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(fwd) Re: Trying to use only tabs for indenting c# files - csharp-mode error? |
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11 Jan 2012 09:34:57 -0000 |
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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
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Subject: Re: Trying to use only tabs for indenting c# files - csharp-mode error?
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:46:45 +0000 (UTC)
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Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Objective: use only tabs for indenting c# files
[ .... ]
> Ultimately, I want the tab-width set to 4, but for now I just want to
> leave or set it to 8:
> M-x set-variable [enter] tab-width [enter] 8 [enter]
> I will use following legend when showing file content:
> # represents a leading tab
> + represents a leading empty space (following a preceding tab)
> = represents a leading space character
> Here's the source file:
> namespace Application
> {
> #+++++++public class MyClass
> #+++++++{
> #+++++++#+++++++public MyClass ()
> #+++++++#+++++++{
> #+++++++#+++++++}
> #+++++++}
> }
> Deleting the first tab changes it to:
> namespace Application
> {
> =======public class MyClass
> #+++++++{
> #+++++++#+++++++public MyClass ()
> #+++++++#+++++++{
> #+++++++#+++++++}
> #+++++++}
> }
> Hitting tab key while point is the 'public class' line changes it to:
> namespace Application
> {
> ==public class MyClass
> #+++++++{
> #+++++++#+++++++public MyClass ()
> #+++++++#+++++++{
> #+++++++#+++++++}
> #+++++++}
> }
> I can't help but feeling that this is in error!
> The tab-width is 8,
> indent-tabs-mode is t
> and still, it uses spaces to indent, and only two of them.
You have told it to use a tab instead of 8 spaces. You haven't told
it how far to indent, though.
[ .... ]
> And finally"
> M-<
> C-SPC
> M->
> <tab>
> produces following result:
> namespace Application
> {
> ==public class MyClass
> =={
> ====public string MyString;
> ====public MyClass ()
> ===={
> ====}
> ==}
> }
> So obviously neither tab-width nor indent-tabs-mode are obeyed nor
> respected!
> Please advise,
C# mode is derived from CC Mode, so read the CC Mode manual. :-)
However, for your specific problem, the variable c-basic-offset needs
to be set to 8. Currently, it looks like it is 2.
> ;;; csharp-mode.el --- C# mode derived mode
>
> ;; Author : Dylan R. E. Moonfire (original)
> ;; Maintainer : Dino Chiesa <dpchiesa@hotmail.com>
> ;; Created : Feburary 2005
> ;; Modified : May 2011
> ;; Version : 0.8.6
> ;; Keywords : c# languages oop mode
> ;; X-URL : http://code.google.com/p/csharpmode/
> ;; Last-saved : <2011-May-21 20:28:30>
Perhaps you could contact Dino Chiesa and ask him to include "CC Mode"
(with that capitalisation, please) somewhere in that information.
> TIA,
> Guido
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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