eclipse indentation on emacs

Question

I'm an emacs user who just started working for a new company where eclipse is the standard. I've tried eclipse, but I want to also experiment with JDEE (I'm coming back to Java after a long hiatus). The major stumbling block so far is getting the indentation to match. Is there an easy way to do this, or am I going to need to dig deeply into the nuts and bolts of emacs indentation?

EDIT: sorry for the confusion in this question: I do not want to get Eclipse to mimic emacs, I want emacs to mimic Eclipse. I want to be able to use emacs to modify code without screwing up the indentation that the Eclipse users expect.

Answer 1

I'll be honest: I'm not sure exactly what you mean by making Eclipse's indentation match Emacs. But you can modify indentation here: Windows->Preferences-General->Editors

Click on the 'Text Editors' option, and you'll see the tab width properties.

One more little note, Eclipse has Emacs-style key bindings built into it: Windows->Preferences->General->Keys

Under 'Scheme', there's an option for Emacs.

Note: you can also modify the format of your Java code here: Windows->Preferences->Java->Code Style->Formatter

Answer 2

You need to customize the indentation in java mode. Take a look here, here and here.

Answer 3

Maybe one alternative is to use a command line tool such as indent , or run eclipse in batch from emacs :-)