> On Dec 1, 2024, at 2:33 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> wrote:
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> On 01/12/2024 21:10, Yuan Fu wrote:
>> Ah, I see. That’s a good point, and I definitely prefer the indentation result of parent-bol here. The one produced by standalone-parent is just wrong. What we can do is make standalone-parent ignore “.” when checking for “standaloneness”. And perhaps make it configurable so it’s enabled only for modes that this waiver makes sense (C-like languages excluding C and C++).
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> Maybe not by hardcoding this in inside the 'standalone-parent' matcher, but writing this in the indentation rules? Different languages might have differing ASTs for such construct.
> 
> Or if you meant to do a text search, a period might start a method call, but it could also continue a "range" literal in some other language, or some struct initializer (I think?) in C/C++. Also, some languages allow (and style guides suggest) to have the previous at the end of the line, then followed by newline and then the method name.

Not hard-coded, but customizable, like this:

Yuan