Emacs-Kotlin-Mode-Maintainers/kotlin-mode

Default indentation is 8 spaces

russel opened this issue · 6 comments

russel commented

It seems that the default indentation for Kotlin mode is 8 spaces. Is this the right default?

There appears to be no examples of changing the various defaults.

gregghz commented

I believe it should be 4 spaces but in certain nested cases (like when indenting parameter lists) it uses 2x the default indentation level.

There currently is no option for either of these things in kotlin-mode.

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tituomin commented

Set the variable kotlin-tab-width to change the default.

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shaleh commented

But why is it 8 when the community standard is 4??

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russel commented

Of course the right character for indent is tab. At least Go uses that, but Python, Rust, etc. have a de facto standard of 4 spaces. :-(

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DarrienG commented

I swear plugins do this to make you fiddle with your .emacs more. The only code style I've seen with 8 spaces default is GNU C. Insane default.

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gregghz commented

the default was changed to 4 ab61099