Re: Code alignment

[Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk>]

"Ewen Cartwright" <ewen.cartwright@abcam.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm a long-time vim user who is converting to emacs. One thing I miss
> from vim is a generic code alignment tool (like Align.vim, if anyone's
> familiar with it) for formatting code like:
>
>   <cfset var intSupplierID = 0>
>   <cfset var structSupplierInfo = 0>
>   <cfset var intAbID = getAbID(arguments.intStockID)>
>
> as:
>
>   <cfset var intSupplierID      = 0>
>   <cfset var structSupplierInfo = 0>
>   <cfset var intAbID            = getAbID(arguments.intStockID)>
>
> As you may be able to tell, this is ColdFusion code, so natty C or
> Java-specific code-formatting tools won't help much -- I guess I'll need
> something completely language-agnostic as I doubt anyone has written
> anything specific to ColdFusion.
>
> If anyone knows of anything I could use in emacs to do this I'd be very
> grateful!

You could try creating a ColdFusion mode and using M-x align.

I tried this:

(define-derived-mode cf-mode java-mode "CF") 
(push 'cf-mode align-c++-modes)

and I got the alignment you want by marking the text and doing M-x
align. 

I know nothing at all about ColdFusion, so I don't know if java-mode is
the right thing from which to derive a ColdFusion mode.  All that really
matters, however, is that you have a mode name that you can add to
align-c++-modes. 

Regards,

-- 
Jim Ottaway