On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:32:35PM -0400, Paul Kinnucan wrote: > Charles Curley writes: > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:19:30PM -0400, Ed Mooney wrote: > > > I don't know. This may be relevant: > > > > > > ^H v indent-tabs-mode > > > > Found that. Right now I have it set to nil (meaning no tabs, spaces > > only, the preferred style). The problem is the client wants tabs. So > > I'd like to be able to use tabs & not have the style checker complain > > about them. > > Hi Charles, > > The JDEE is set up to use the Sun coding style by > default. The Sun coding style frowns on the use of tab > characters in Java source files. The JDEE provides a set of > customization options that allow you to specify any coding > style that you want. To use these options intelligently, you > need to know how CheckStyle works. See the doc for > CheckStyle, which is available at > http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net. > > A way to do what you want would be to copy the sun_checks.xml > configuration file in the JDEE's JDEROOT/java/lib directory > to a location of your choosing, rename it to something like > my_checks.xml, and delete the line > > <module name="TabCharacter"/> > > from the copy. In effect, you've created your own custom style > that differs from the Sun style only in that you allow tabs > in source code. Finally, you should customize the jde_checkstyle_style > variable to point to my_checks.xml
Thank you for putting things together for me. That's what I needed to know. One other item: use a fully qualified path to your custom file, e.g. /home/ccurley/.emacs.d/site-lisp/jde/java/lib/foo_checks.xml -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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