Re: Indenting according to block

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

troelskn wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry if this has been asked a gazillion times before (Which I suspect
> it has), but I don't really know what to search for.
>
> I'm using Emacs primarily for writing PHP. The PHP-mode appears to
> extend from C-mode. The auto-indent is not formatting code the way I
> would like it to, so I would obviously like to change that.
> The basic rules, by which I'm used to indent code is, that for each
> block-scope, I increase indentation by one tab (Well actually by 2
> spaces, since I don't use tabs). However, the way Emacs does it now,
> is to indent the line by a number of spaces, which corresponds to the
> end-column of the previous line. I think that's called indent-
> relative?
>
> Does the indentation-rules, I described have a name? And is there
> support build into Emacs for it?


Hi Troels,

The PHP modes I have seen does not indent all parts correctly. The HTML 
part is not handled.

There is a solution however, a working solution - but still with some 
bugs. I think that most of the time it will work.

The solution I know about is nXhtml. nXhtml includes support for 
multiple major modes in a buffer. The HTML parts are handles by 
nxhtml-mode (or html-mode) and the PHP parts by php-mode.

The home page is at

  http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/nXhtml/doc/nxhtml.html

I plan to upload a new version as soon as I get time. As I do the 
changes in my sources I use to note them immediately in the list of 
changes you can find from the home page. So you can already see what the 
next version will contain (though I plan some more changes than those 
currently noted there).

You will need Emacs 22 to use nXhtml.