Give electric indent its own section

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org b/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
index f0314ca..5fb32b6 100644
--- a/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
+++ b/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
@@ -1034,12 +1034,6 @@
        (add-hook 'scss-mode-hook #'electric-pair-local-mode)
      #+END_SRC
 
-   - Automatically indent code.
-
-     #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
-       (add-hook 'scss-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
-     #+END_SRC
-
    - Enable auto-completion
 
      #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
@@ -1094,12 +1088,6 @@
        (setq ruby-align-chained-calls t)
      #+END_SRC
 
-   - Automatically indent code.
-
-     #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
-       (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
-     #+END_SRC
-
 ** Coffee
 
    - Automatically match parentheses and other delimiters.
@@ -1110,12 +1098,6 @@
 
 ** PHP
 
-   - Automatically indent code
-
-     #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
-       (add-hook 'php-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
-     #+END_SRC
-
 *** Show tabs and spaces in indent
 
     I'm working with some WordPress plugins nowadays and their style
@@ -1183,21 +1165,53 @@
        (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.html\\.erb$" . web-mode)))
    #+END_SRC
 
-** JavaScript
 
-   Turn on electric indenting for JavaScript.
+** CSS
+
+   Turn on electric pair mode for CSS.
 
    #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
-     (add-hook 'js2-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
+     (add-hook 'css-mode-hook #'electric-pair-local-mode)
    #+END_SRC
 
-** CSS
-
-   Turn on electric indent and electric pair modes for CSS.
+* Minor modes
+
+  Emacs offers a lot of minor modes and even more can be found in the
+  ELPA, MELPA and Marmalade repositories. These offer a lot of
+  customization possibilities and added features.
+
+** Electric indent
+
+   Automatically indenting code upon typing certain characters can be
+   very useful for certain modes where the indentation level can
+   easily be determined. One of the first things I liked about Emacs
+   was the way the {{{key(TAB)}}} key worked: It indents to the
+   "proper" level of indentation, instead of adding a tab character.
+   It quickly grew into a habit to press tab several times when
+   editing a line or a block of code. Electric indent is just an
+   extension of this that, for the most part, allows me to forget
+   about pressing tab.
+
+   It doesn't fit all modes though. When I worked in Python a lot I
+   was fighting the electric indent a lot more than it was helping me.
+   This is because instead of scope influencing indentation as in most
+   languages I've worked with, indentation determines scope in Python,
+   as anyone who's looked at it for more than a minute or two will
+   know. This means that any line can usually have several "proper"
+   indentation levels, depending on the meaning of meaning of that
+   line.
+
+   So, almost all modes use =electric-indent-local-mode=, but a few
+   don't. So I'm also very happy that recently this mode was added,
+   because =electric-indent-mode= is a global minor mode and I only want
+   to use it in some 99% of the available modes.
 
    #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+     (add-hook 'scss-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
+     (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
+     (add-hook 'php-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
+     (add-hook 'js2-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
      (add-hook 'css-mode-hook #'electric-indent-local-mode)
-     (add-hook 'css-mode-hook #'electric-pair-local-mode)
    #+END_SRC
 
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