Emacs ruby-mode AUTO auto-indenting

[endeavor_]

I'm in the process of tweaking my .emacs for Ruby, but there's one thing that I can't figure out. In emacs after I start a new block statement (function, class, etc) it doesn't automatically auto-indent after hitting Enter. After I press Enter my cursor is at the first character of the next line. I have to hit Tab once to be auto-indented. I wish I didn't have to do this for just about every line of code. python-mode works the way I want to do without having to customize anything

Is there a way to change this so that it automatically indents without having to press Tab? This is on Ubuntu 10.04.

[cgroza]

Post the output of:


C-h k RET
and


C-h k TAB
This will give us the 2 functions names those 2 keys are bind to.
I think that you will be able to advise the RET function to execute the TAB function too.

Also, have you tried getting help on #emacs on irc.freenode.net?

[jimi_hendrix]

In Emacs, by default, RET does not autoindent. C-j does autoindenting. You can bind autoindenting to RET via Elisp:


(define-key global-map (kbd "RET") 'newline-and-indent)

Throw that in your .emacs file and you should be good.

[endeavor_]

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to change it. However you guys did help me find the correct terms to Google for and I found the answer (http://peter.peca.dk/art_Emacs_Ruby_Mode.html):

(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook (lambda () (local-set-key "\r" 'newline-and-indent)))

Thanks!