From: "Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar.batsov@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Indentation of cond forms in (Emacs) Lisp mode
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:07:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37BC56E1-3A18-46D0-8F56-F1447D18C02F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmiooidqda.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
On 3 Jun 2014, at 17:22, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar.batsov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I noticed that `cond' forms in Emacs Lisp mode and Lisp mode are
>> indented
>> with just one space, unlike most other "control" structures:
>>
>> (cond
>> ((x) (y))
>> (t (z))
>>
>> Why is that?
>
> The intention is that you do not break after cond, so it isn't treated
> specially, ie. like a normal function call.
>
> Andreas.
Still, it seems a bit arbitrary. Are there are constructs treated in the
same manner?
Also, how is this any different from a macro like `with-temp-buffer`,
which has regular indentation (2 spaces)?
(with-temp-buffer
(do-something)
(do-something-else))
>
> --
> Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
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> B9D7
> "And now for something completely different."
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-03 13:37 Indentation of cond forms in (Emacs) Lisp mode Bozhidar Batsov
2014-06-03 14:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-05 7:07 ` Bozhidar Batsov [this message]
2014-06-05 7:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-05 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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