Hi everyone.
Excuse the lack of wrapping on this post, I'm trying to make sure it looks the same on my screen as everyone elses for this one...
I've a couple of (hopefully quick) questions on how to get Emacs to do a couple of things.
There seem to be rather a few different modes in Emacs...
I've had a look at a few folks .emacs files, skimmed across the manual etc,etc, but all I want to know is:
(a) how do I get Emacs to insert something along the lines of
"created DD-MM-YYYY HH:MI last modified DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM"
(where the letters stand for the obvious) for tracking source code mods etc.
and
(b) How do I configure how Emacs indents text when I press the tab key..
For example, in Tcl mode, I might type some SQL queries that I want formatted a particular way.
Emacs as I have it set at the moment (pretty default) will just mash everything to the left.
Tab doesn't even respond, unless I'm in the middle of a Tcl if/else/elseif section.
I'd like to be able to indent like so:
if { condition }{
set sql_query "select user_id, count(*) as how_many
from bboard
where posting_time + 60 > sysdate
group by user_id
having not exists (select 1 from
bboard_authorized_maintainers bam
where bam.user_id = bboard.user_id)
order by how_many desc"
}
At the moment, the only lines Emacs will indent using tab is the set sql_query[...] line, since it recognises the 'if' keyword.
All the rest is done with the space bar, and it's a pain!
Cheers.
Baz.
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