Hi Stephen and all others, thanks very much! This worked. Hack or not, I am happy I don't have to squint at my code chunks any more. Thanks again, On 11/28/06, Stephen Eglen wrote: > > > > > The TAB does indent within a code chunk. I put up my dotemacs at this > > location in case you want to try it out: > > > > http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/temp/ > > Great, thanks. I now see the problem. > > In a regular foo.R file, RET is bound to newline-and-indent whereas > in a code chunk of an Rnw buffer, RET is bound to noweb-newline which > does not include any indent. > > --- From noweb-mode.el: ----------------------------------------------- > ;; For some reason that I do not understand, `newline' does not do the > ;; right thing in quoted code. If point is not preceded by whitespace, > ;; it moves to the beginning of the current line, not the beginning of > ;; the new line. `newline 1' works fine, hence the kludge. I'd love to > ;; understand what's going on, though. Try running M-x newline in the > ;; middle of a code quote in a doc chunk to see > ;; what I mean: its odd. > > (defun noweb-newline (&optional arg) > "A kludge to get round very odd behaviour of newline in quoted code." > (interactive "p") > (if arg (newline arg) (newline 1))) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > So, a simple fix in your case would be to add the following to the end > of .emacs: > > (require 'noweb-mode) > (defun noweb-newline (&optional arg) > "A kludge to get round very odd behaviour of newline in quoted code." > (interactive "p") > (if arg (newline arg) (newline 1)) > (noweb-indent-line)) > > BUT THIS IS A HACK!!! Someone who knows the noweb code better than me > can probably advise what's best... > > > Stephen > -- Shravan Vasishth, Empirical Methods in Syntax Juniorprofessor, Institute for Linguistics, Potsdam Tel: +49-(0)331-977-2016, -2457 Fax: -2087 http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth [[alternative HTML version deleted]]