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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: yzhh <yezonghui@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pp-to-string, defun and "()"
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:03:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wb6minl.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fgk301$knm$1@ger.gmane.org> (yzhh's message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:22:09 +0800")

() yzhh <yezonghui@gmail.com>
() Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:22:09 +0800

   The "()" is translated to "nil" which does not look good, and
   the doc string is put in the same line place. Any suggesting?

extend pp-buffer to special-case defun (and defun-like) forms.
see sketch below.

thi

___________________________________________________________
--- pp.el	3 Aug 2007 03:13:44 -0000	1.35
+++ pp.el	4 Nov 2007 10:03:34 -0000
@@ -86,6 +86,19 @@
       (insert ?\n))
      (t (goto-char (point-max)))))
   (goto-char (point-min))
+  ;; Special-case (def... () "DOCSTRING").
+  (condition-case err-var
+      (when (looking-at "(def[^ ]+ [^\"]+\"")
+        (goto-char (1- (match-end 0)))
+        (insert "\n")
+        (forward-sexp 1)
+        (unless (eolp)
+          (insert "\n"))
+        (forward-sexp -2)
+        (when (looking-at "nil")
+          (replace-match "()")))
+    (error nil))
+  (goto-char (point-min))
   (indent-sexp))
 
 ;;;###autoload

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-04 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-04  9:22 pp-to-string, defun and "()" yzhh
2007-11-04 10:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2007-11-04 10:40 ` Andreas Schwab

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