Re: indentation of functions inside flet

[egnarts-ms <egnartsms@gmail.com>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
>> So it would be nice if Lisp mode indented such function definitions like
>> defuns.  I wonder, has anyone cared about this before me (I'm sure
>> someone
>> has) and are there any improvements to the Lisp mode available ?
> 
> It would be nice if CL macros were indented better, I agree.
> Note that the way to do it is to put the bulk of the code in cl(-*).el and
> only change lisp-mode.el so as to provide hooks that CL needs.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 

Basically, what is wrong with the current indentation mechanism is its
short-sightedness.

We have a possibility to specify how to indent macro forms, by attaching
"lisp-indent-function" property to macro symbols, usually with (declare
(indent ...)) declaration.  But the key moment is this: indentation analysis
is limited to only the immediate enclosing list.  Once we want to indent at
some point, we find out what is the innermost containing sexp, then we take
its car and analyze it.  So the car of immediate parent fully determines the
indentation pattern.  No further upward search is performed.

For most cases this behavior is perfectly OK, but, as we see, for
"flet"-like forms this is not the case.
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