Re: trouble making an indent-line function that doesn't move the point

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

Michael George Lerner <mglerner@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I wrote a very simple emacs mode to deal with highlighting/indentation
> for CHARMM files (CHARMM is a computational biology package that has
> its own input syntax). The indentation and highlighting basically do
> what I want except for the fact that calling charmm-indent-line moves
> the point to the beginning of the line. This is the first time I've
> touched lisp in 11 years, so I'm a little rusty. Can someone help me
> make this function behave?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -michael
>
> (defun charmm-continuation-line ()
>   "Returns non-nil if current line continus a previous one"
>   (eq ?- (char-before (line-end-position 0)))
> )

One note on your own indenting: put the trailing parentheses all on the
same line, it makes the code much more readable.  Emacs Lisp mode should
indent correctly to help you "parse" the s-expressions as you read them.

Check out Emacswiki, and check out "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions."  I'll
take a more detailed look at the code later.

Joel

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