On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:18:09AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > I have what seems like a simple question but has become tough to find an > answer. I have been playing around with Emacs for a little while and have > noticed one thing thats really bothers me. Why can't I tab(indent) a new line > in c-mode? Basically when I open a *.c file and want to indent a line I hit > tab > and nothing happens. This is only is c-mode. This also happens if there is > no > .emacs file in the homedir also.
My observation - Emacs does a excellent job with C/C++ code. Most of the time if I hit tab and it doesn't indent where I expect it to go, it is because I have a syntax error, such as a missing semicolon or parenthesis. Once I fix that problem the indentation works correctly. I think I am a better programmer because of it. I pick up on those little errors while writing code, not as compilation errors. For syntax highlighting here are a couple of lines from my .emacs file which I believe are the right ones: (global-font-lock-mode) (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux