I use #3. Same for long lists, tuples, etc. It doesn’t require adding any extra spaces beyond the indentations. As always, be consistent. mydict = { “key1”: 1, “key2”: 2, “key3”: 3, } mylist = [ (1, ‘hello’), (2, ‘world’), ] nested = { a: [ (1, ‘a’), (2, ‘b’), ], b: [ (3, ‘c’), … Read more
Here’s a neat trick in Sublime Text 2 or 3 to convert your indentation spacing in a document. TL;DR: Converting from 2 spaces to 4 spaces: Ensure tab width is set to 2. Convert your 2-space indentation to tabs, switch to tab width 4, and then convert the indentation back to spaces. The detailed description: … Read more
Indenting With Comments Since browsers ignore comments, you can use them to indent your pre tag contents. Solution <html> <body> <main> Here is my code with hack: <pre> <!– –>def some_function <!– –> return ‘Hello, World!’ <!– –>end </pre> Here is my code without hack: <pre> def some_function return ‘Hello, World!’ end </pre> </main> <body> … Read more
If you want it for all files, go to Preferences -> Settings – Default/User. But as several comments below indicate, Syntax Specific settings can limit it to just the languages you choose. To limit this configuration to Ruby files, first open up a Ruby file in the editor, and then go to Preferences -> Settings … Read more
There’s no way to do that in markdown’s native features. However markdown allows inline HTML, so writing This will appear with six space characters in front of it will produce: This will appear with six space characters in front of it If you have control over CSS on the page, you could also use a … Read more
There is no universal tab size, so I always make sure to replace tabs by spaces (so you know what you see is what you get everywhere else as well) Go to Settings -> “Preferences…” -> Language Menu/Tab Settings and check ‘Replace by space’
This still bothers me. I only just decided that the best work-around (for me personally) is this: :set filetype=html And then highlight your text and hit =. BOOM! HTML formatting succes. (Not ideal, I know, but at least it works.)
Much simpler than scripting vim from the bash command line is to use vimscript from inside of vim (or perhaps a much simpler one-liner for scripting vim from the command line). I personally prefer using the arg list for all multi-file manipulation. For example: :args ~/src/myproject/**/*.ttl | argdo execute “normal gg=G” | update args sets … Read more
There’s several things that all need to be in place. Just to summarize them all in one location: Set the following option: :filetype indent on :set filetype=html # abbrev – :set ft=html :set smartindent # abbrev – :set si Then either move the cursor to the top of the file and indent to the end: … Read more
Short answer: The key point is to tell emacs to insert whatever you want when indenting, this is done by changing the indent-line-function. It is easier to change it to insert a tab and then change tabs into 4 spaces than change it to insert 4 spaces. The following configuration will solve your problem: (setq-default … Read more