Ada Mode for Emacs

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

Hi,

I'm having a spot of bother with Emacs and since I don't know if it's ada
mode specific I thought I'd ask here rather than gnu.emacs.help (there are
ppl here who use emacs IIRC).  The problem is that when TAB is pressed it
won't indent further than the previous line, and won't allow lines to be
indented of my free will (indentations can be decreased but not increased).

I did some digging and found an option

Emacs->Editing->Indent->Tab Always Indent

which controls the global behaviour.  This is non-nil and works for non-Ada
files.  I haven't tried editing files for other languages, so I don't know
if this is Ada mode specific.  Does Ada mode override this setting, or is it
a more general programming setting?  I've tried fiddling with the Ada mode
settings a little, but to no avail.  Also looked through most of the
customisation settings, but might have missed it.

This is most annoying since it doesn't allow information to be formatted in
a neat way, comments in particular:

e.g.

-- author:        Bob
-- date:          7th June 2002
-- last modified: 7th June 2002


The alternative emacs is currenlty imposing just looks silly.  Any ideas?


Chris.