From: George Ogata <g_ogata@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T21:41:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about emacs indentation

"Sam Kong" <sam.s.kong@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, Konstantin!
>
> Konstantin Levinski wrote:
>> I think I can help with explanation of why emacs behaves as it does,
>> and maybe you'd agree that it makes sense.
>
> Now I understand it.
> But it's hard to change habit.
> Do you think the emacs way is better?

I got used to using C-j instead of RETs and TABs.  Give it a bash.

>> <tab> in emacs/ruby means (ruby-indent-command), which parses vicinity
>> of cursor and figures out correct identation. that is, it is not "add a
>> tab" but "format this line".
>> so to get desired result, you could just use 'end<tab>'
>> or call (indent-region) - Ctl-Alt-\ - to indent the whole thing in one
>> go later.
>>
>> This way you dont need to care about formatting at all, it's done
>> correctly automatically.
>
> How can I keep tabs instead of spaces?

For all modes by default:

  (set-default 'indent-tabs-mode t)

For just ruby-mode:

  (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook (lambda () (setq indent-tabs-mode t)))