Emacs CSS-Mode Fix (adding to the chain!)

Posted: October 29th, 2009 | Author: Rob Searles | Filed under: Open Source, Tutorials | Tags: Emacs | Comments

After my week with Emacs I’m still struggling along. One of my main annoyances is the default way some of the modes indent the code. I think the worst offender of this is the default CSS-mode. After frustration when, yet again, I hit the tab key and the cursor rockets about 80 places to the right I decided to Google for a fix.

The internet is great! Clearly it wasn’t just me having a problem, Guido Stevens was also suffering and posted a fix, which he himself found on another blog post by Chris Miller, which Chris in turn found on StokeBloke.com which had been found originally on a now dead post.

Not bad! Four people all having problems with the same thing and posting a fix for others to share. So I thought I’d join the chain, and write this blog post.

Oh yes, and the fix itself:

;; fix css mode
(require 'css-mode)
(setq cssm-indent-level 2)
(setq cssm-newline-before-closing-bracket t)
(setq cssm-indent-function #'cssm-c-style-indenter)
(setq cssm-mirror-mode t)

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