Re: Indentation of constants in LISP

[A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr>]

I made a new little modification, because I forgot to cut 3 lines before the old (looking-at ).

Please forget about the later patch.




Index: emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el,v
retrieving revision 1.199
diff -c -r1.199 lisp-mode.el
*** emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el	17 Feb 2007 11:34:22 -0000	1.199
--- emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el	22 Feb 2007 02:51:26 -0000
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*** 908,942 ****
        (let ((normal-indent (current-column)))
          (cond ((elt state 3)
                 ;; Inside a string, don't change indentation.
! 	       nil)
!               ((save-excursion
!                  ;; test whether current line begins with a constant
!                  (goto-char indent-point)
!                  (skip-chars-forward " \t")
!                  (looking-at ":"))
!                (let ((desired-indent
!                       (save-excursion
!                         (goto-char (1+ containing-sexp))
!                         (parse-partial-sexp (point) calculate-lisp-indent-last-sexp 0 t)
!                         (point)))
!                      (parse-sexp-ignore-comments t))
!                  ;; Align a constant symbol under the last constant symbol
!                  (goto-char calculate-lisp-indent-last-sexp)
!                  (while (> (point) desired-indent)
!                    (if (looking-at ":")
!                        (setq desired-indent (point))
!                      (backward-sexp 1))))
!                  (current-column))
                ((and (integerp lisp-indent-offset) containing-sexp)
                 ;; Indent by constant offset
                 (goto-char containing-sexp)
                 (+ (current-column) lisp-indent-offset))
                (desired-indent)
-               ((and (boundp 'lisp-indent-function)
-                     lisp-indent-function
-                     (not retry))
-                (or (funcall lisp-indent-function indent-point state)
-                    normal-indent))
                (t
                 normal-indent))))))
  
--- 908,950 ----
        (let ((normal-indent (current-column)))
          (cond ((elt state 3)
                 ;; Inside a string, don't change indentation.
!                nil)
                ((and (integerp lisp-indent-offset) containing-sexp)
                 ;; Indent by constant offset
                 (goto-char containing-sexp)
                 (+ (current-column) lisp-indent-offset))
+               (calculate-lisp-indent-last-sexp
+                ;; in this case calculate-lisp-indent-last-sexp is not nil.
+                (or
+                 ;; try to align the parameters of a known function
+                 (and (boundp 'lisp-indent-function)
+                      lisp-indent-function
+                      (not retry)
+                      (funcall lisp-indent-function indent-point state))
+                 ;; if not a standard function, try to align a constant-symbol
+                 ;; under the last preceding constant symbol, if there is such one
+                 ;; of the last 2 preceding symbols, in the previous uncommented
+                 ;; line
+                 (and (save-excursion
+                        (goto-char indent-point)
+                        (skip-chars-forward " \t")
+                        (looking-at ":"))
+                 (let ((parse-sexp-ignore-comments t)
+                       indent)
+                   (goto-char calculate-lisp-indent-last-sexp)
+                   (or (and (looking-at ":")
+                            (setq indent (current-column)))
+                       (and (> calculate-lisp-indent-last-sexp containing-sexp)
+                            (< (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
+                               (prog2 (backward-sexp) (point)))
+                            (looking-at ":")
+                                 (setq indent (current-column))))
+                        indent))
+                 ;; another symbols or constants not preceded by a constant
+                 ;; as defined above.
+                 normal-indent))
+               ;; in this case calculate-lisp-indent-last-sexp is nil
                (desired-indent)
                (t
                 normal-indent))))))