I'm looking for a way to turn off automatic indentation in emacs. I don't want emacs to automatically indent code when I enter special characters like ; or /*
Thanks for any help.
A:
If you're using a mode based on CC-mode, C-c C-l will toggle electricity.
ashawley
2009-03-24 18:43:34
+5
A:
Steve Yegge's js2-mode is great.
From http://code.google.com/p/js2-mode/
An improved JavaScript mode for GNU Emacs.
Features:
- variable (adjustable) indentation
- accurate syntax highlighting
- syntax-error highlighting
- strict-mode warning reporting (such as duplicate var declaration)
- smart line-wrapping in comments and strings
- typing helpers (e.g. matching quotes/brackets)
- code-folding (collapse element as {...})
- supports JavaScript 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 (including E4X)
- customizable colors, or use font-lock defaults
- many customization options
Eventually aims to be competitive with IntelliJ and other best-of-class JavaScript editors.
Note - this mode is for GNU Emacs, version 21 and higher. It does not support XEmacs.
Mike Samuel
2009-03-24 20:35:44
He can't compete with Aptana which is free. It comes with a JS parsers which is as good as js2-modes (if not better b/c of intellisence). His indentation rules are not adjustable, all you can do is set them to tabs, or variable number of spaces. Which doesn't keep js2-mode from indenting 8 spaces instead of 4, even if you have it set that way. It doesn't handle comma delimited vars or things like this statement $.each(array,function(), next line will indent against the function
Drew
2010-10-27 23:42:49
From the docs:;; Unlike cc-engine based language modes, js2-mode's line-indentation is not;; customizable. It is a surprising amount of work to support customizable;; indentation. The current compromise is that the tab key lets you cycle among;; various likely indentation points, similar to the behavior of python-mode.
Drew
2010-10-27 23:48:03
Drew, do you have a link to Aptana's emacs mode?
Mike Samuel
2010-10-30 17:22:34
A:
Set javascript-auto-indent-flag to nil before loading javascript-mode. You can either add a line to your .emacs file or type
M-x customize-group RET javascript RET
and edit the value there and save. You may need to restart Emacs for this to take effect; at least in the version of javascript.el that I have, the flag is only consulted when setting up the keymap.
Jouni K. Seppänen
2009-03-25 06:13:43