From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: indentation Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 18:03:10 -0300 Message-ID: <861ramqkj5.fsf@protonmail.com> References: <20210427090348.67C9B5D0@centrum.cz> <20210427202932.DFDEF50D@centrum.cz> <20210428083227.FCFDA7C0@centrum.cz> <8635v86ber.fsf@protonmail.com> <87lf8zcxog.fsf@gnu.org> <86zgxe1sdu.fsf@protonmail.com> <87h7jlvbkj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Wayne Harris Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17115"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:jKyfxhFMcHB9WgPHe6t2XZpGD2I= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 23:03:46 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1le2Co-0004MA-Sy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 23:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44116 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1le2Cn-0005Nn-Uz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 17:03:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1le2CN-0005N9-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 17:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:57902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1le2CK-0005J2-Vh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 17:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1le2CI-0003gC-TQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 23:03:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.248, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129436 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > writes: > > Hey Wayne, > >>> FWIW, I'd write your example as >>> >>> \noindent {\em Notation.} As we often write polynomials in finite rings of >>> characterisc 2, let's define >>> \[ >>> \poly(x) = ... >>> \] >>> in the same way that it was used in the introduction. >>> >>> which is indented according to how AUCTeX would do it or the builtin >>> `latex-mode' if `latex-indent-within-escaped-parens' is t. >> >> Thank you. I had no idea what was going on there. Clearly the root >> cause of the problem is not understanding what is going on. That's >> life: > > Absolutely! > >> I took a while to begin using paredit-mode precisely for not being >> able to minimially live with it, but it's been really worth it to try. >> (I use it constantly now.) Maybe the same will happen with >> electric-indent-mode. > > Possibly. If you want to, you might also want to try the > `aggressive-indent' package (from MELPA; its minor-mode is > `aggressive-indent-mode') which is essentially `electric-indent-mode' on > steroids, i.e., it indents the current function according to the mode's > rules on every edit which makes it completely impossible to fight > against the mode's indentation rules. (Of course, aggressive-indent is > mostly suited with programming modes; it works very well with lisp.) Lol! I like that a lot, actually. It would show me what are the rules. I didn't it in the previous message, but I almost wrote that I was going against it because I didn't know what the rules were in the first place. If software will do a reasonable job and all by itself, I'm definitely willing to accept the reasonable result. So, I'll report back if my experience is interesting wih the aggressive-indent package. Thanks for pointing it out.