GNU bug report logs - #55102
By default, emacs lack the ability to change identation style on fly in menubar.

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From: shenlebantongying <slbtty <at> icloud.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: By default, emacs lack the ability to change identation style on fly
 in menubar.
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:39:14 -0400

Hi,

Based on my observation, all other editors today can change indentation style on a convenient place (mostly some where in menu bar). Emacs should provide a menu item (in “Options") to force certain style of indentation (like tab or spaces, how long and how many?).

This is especially useful when working on multiple project which are usually having different style of indentation, and setting for each of them is burdensome.

There are enormous amount of webpages, blogs, posts on adjusting indentation of emacs. I think the need for them will be halved if there can be a Ad-hoc indentation style on menubar by default.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: shenlebantongying <slbtty <at> icloud.com>
Cc: 55102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55102: By default, emacs lack the ability to change
 identation style on fly in menubar.
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:00:34 +0200

shenlebantongying <slbtty <at> icloud.com> writes:

> Based on my observation, all other editors today can change
> indentation style on a convenient place (mostly some where in menu
> bar). Emacs should provide a menu item (in “Options") to force certain
> style of indentation (like tab or spaces, how long and how many?).

So basically to be able to alter `indent-tabs-mode' and `tab-width' from
the menu?

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Message #11 received at 55102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 55102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, shenlebantongying <slbtty <at> icloud.com>
Subject: Re: bug#55102: By default, emacs lack the ability to change
 identation style on fly in menubar.
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:46:29 +0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> So basically to be able to alter `indent-tabs-mode' and `tab-width' from
> the menu?

And in CC Mode, probably c-set-style as well.

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