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Re: Indenting Strings (How to?)
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Indenting Strings (How to?) |
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Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:50:02 GMT |
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In article <m2r7ynvdv4.fsf@syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com>,
Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> wrote:
> A lot of times when I'm coding I'll have a very long string or
> comments which is some other kind of code (i.e. HTML or CSS embedded
> in a Perl CGI script) or is text. Many times I'll try to keep the
> indentation neat, but pressing tab in a string (or comments) doesn't
> do anything (in CPerl mode, PHP mode, or any other mode). This means
> that I end up having to space over manually (a royal PITA).
>
> Is there a good way to tell emacs to either treat all comments
> and strings as normal text (i.e so I can get basic tabbing and
> justification), or (even better), to set rules concerning how to treat
> comments and strings.
Type C-q TAB to insert a literal TAB character.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA