From kde-devel  Mon Mar 20 23:23:06 2000
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:23:06 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Indenting
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:19:07PM -0500, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > This being said, I agree, tabs suck. :)
> > I would be happy with any decision for a standard indentation of 2,
> > 3 or 4 spaces, so that I could set emacs to it once and for all.
> > Currently I have to adapt it to the file I'm working on... :)
> > But since this will never happen, I'll keep adapting ;-)
> > 
> 
> God, how well I understand you !!! :-)
> 
> Luck is that X/Emacs is intelligent enough to obey to local tab rule when
> editing inside existing code blocks. Problem is when creating new blocks
> (like a new method in an already existing class). Once you start a block
> that has a first unindented line, you're back at your default rule.
Yup.

> Now, the idea: we need a LISP guru to adapt Arnt's .emacs so that it
> automatically determines and sets the appropriate indenting count for a
> file at opening.
This is impossible - it assumes the file is consistent in itself.
Open any kspread source file (except the ones I just hacked!), and you
will soon see that it's far from being the case.
There are statements all over the place. You can hardly determine
anything from that.

OTOH, a first line that sets the variable could do it
(like I've seen for vi). But I don't know the syntax for emacs. Anybody ?

> Intelligently (the pondered mean of all indents :-) I
> think I'll pray God to lend on me that extra pair of brains that He
> provisioned for my next life, so that I can start understanding Lisp ;-^
;-)

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