At 09:51 AM 8/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this question is totally on topic, but hopefully it won't
> bother people too much.
>
> My company's coding standard dictates that we use four space tabs and that
> we do all of our indentation with tabs, not spaces.
>
> Unfortunately for me, JDE uses the default Emacs indentation settings, which
> includes 8 space tabs and indents things four spaces using spaces.
>
> I prefer the default emacs setting, but it's somewhat important that I write
> code that looks like everyone else's.
>
> I was wondering what I need to add to my .emacs file to change the default
> code formatting to comply with my company's coding standard?
Actually, the JDE inherits its indentation settings from java-mode, which is a
subclass of cc-mode. So the JDE indentation settings are nothing more than the
default Emacs settings for Java code. You can configure Emacs (and hence JDE)
to use tab-based indentation and to use a specified number of spaces per tab
when display tabs. Please read the the Emacs documentation for cc-mode for more
information on code indentation in general and tab-spaced indentation in
particular.
You might also post a query to gnu.emacs.help on tab-based indentation. Kai
Grossjohan, who is probably the leading expert on Emacs indentation, regularly
resonds to indentation questions posted to that list.
- Paul
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