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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: <ptlo@centrum.cz>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: indentation
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:43:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsg39dxhq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210429091455.3C8C08A9@centrum.cz> (ptlo@centrum.cz's message of "Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:14:55 +0200")

> I admit I'm not a fan of gimmicks that are smarter than me...

I think you'll like (electric-indent-mode -1), then ;-)

More seriously, this does not necessarily require "smarts":
in some (many?) projects, the coding conventions says precisely
how indentation should be done, so there is no "smartness" involved and
if you don't like what the auto-indentation does, either it's because of
a bug in the code, or it's because you disagree with the conventions (and
overriding the conventions should be rare).

In those cases, typically the coders end up controlling the indentation
only indirectly, e.g. by carefully choosing where they cut the lines, or
by swapping arguments to commutative operations, or by other such means.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-29 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27  7:03 indentation ptlo
2021-04-27  7:25 ` indentation Philip Kaludercic
2021-04-27 15:45   ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-27 16:06     ` indentation Colin Baxter
2021-04-27 18:43       ` indentation Thibaut Verron
2021-04-27 19:00         ` indentation Colin Baxter
2021-04-27 19:20           ` indentation Thibaut Verron
2021-04-27 20:02             ` indentation Colin Baxter
2021-04-28  8:36               ` indentation Thibaut Verron
2021-04-27  9:30 ` indentation Gregory Heytings
2021-04-27  9:47   ` indentation Joost Kremers
2021-04-27 16:55     ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 22:12       ` indentation Gregory Heytings
2021-04-27 15:01 ` [External] : indentation Drew Adams
2021-04-27 17:04   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 17:54     ` Drew Adams
2021-04-27 20:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 22:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 17:07 ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 18:29   ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-27 20:31     ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-28  6:32       ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-28  6:42         ` indentation Joost Kremers
2021-04-28 14:14         ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-29  7:14           ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-29 13:43             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-04-29 14:23               ` indentation Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-29 21:38                 ` on interface and behavior (Was: Re: indentation) Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-30  7:53                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-01 13:30                     ` on interface and behavior Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-30  7:05               ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-30  7:58                 ` indentation Philip Kaludercic
2021-04-30  8:54                   ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-30  9:09                     ` indentation Thibaut Verron
2021-04-30  9:18                       ` indentation ptlo
2021-04-30 16:49                 ` [External] : indentation Drew Adams
2021-04-30 19:05                 ` indentation Jean Louis
2021-04-30 19:59                   ` indentation Stefan Monnier
2021-04-30 21:58                 ` indentation Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-29 21:14           ` indentation Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-30 20:17             ` indentation Tassilo Horn
2021-05-01 13:43               ` indentation Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-02  7:20                 ` indentation Tassilo Horn
2021-05-04 21:03                   ` indentation Wayne Harris via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-05  1:46                     ` indentation Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-01-26 14:13 Indentation Pierre L. Nageoire
2022-01-26 21:18 ` Indentation Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-27  3:30   ` Indentation Pierre L. Nageoire
2022-01-27 10:15     ` Indentation Robert Pluim
2022-01-28  6:31       ` Indentation Pierre L. Nageoire
2006-10-27 16:17 Indentation zombek
2006-10-27 16:46 ` Indentation Markus Triska
2006-10-27 18:01   ` Indentation Malte Spiess
2006-11-01 20:41     ` Indentation Markus Triska
2006-10-27 16:17 Indentation zombek
2006-10-27 16:53 ` Indentation Sam Peterson
2006-10-27 18:58   ` Indentation Sam Peterson
2006-10-28 16:25     ` Indentation jmg3000
2006-10-28 16:28       ` Indentation jmg3000
2006-10-28 16:54       ` Indentation don provan
2006-10-28 23:29         ` Indentation jmg3000
2006-07-03 22:01 Indentation Ronny Mandal
2006-07-03 23:00 ` Indentation Colin S. Miller
     [not found] <mailman.2266.1066871723.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-23 13:19 ` indentation Gareth Rees
2003-10-23  1:14 indentation Yen Tran

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