(X)Emacs style 'hard' indentation?

[Harald Fernengel]

Hi,

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 15:58, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> I might be wrong about this, but I don't believe KDevelop supports (X)Emacs
> style indentation.  If you've used (X)Emacs for coding, you know what I'm
> talking about.  If not, it's kind of hard to describe.  Basically what
> happens is the indentation is determined by the syntax and sets to what the
> syntax dictates when you hit tab.  You can select a region and use
> Alt+Ctrl+\ and indent the entire region to the proper depts with that one
> key-cord.  I hated it when I first tried to use it.  Now I feel lost
> without it.  Has anybody considered putting an option for this into
> KDevelop?

try KDevelop CVS HEAD, the qEditor should behave pretty much like that, you 
can even highlight a region and press TAB to indent it.

Don't know about Kate (the default editor), try kwrite-devel at kde.org or grab a 
Kate developer on IRC ;)

Best regards,
Harry