From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Insert appropriate line-end character (like ';' for C*)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:03:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10218ac7-1ba3-4ae7-9a19-3b199f78c80f@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: acf8dbd1-ebac-412f-9c5b-f5b343f8502d@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com
On Jun 11, 8:09 pm, Josh <j...@dydxtech.com> wrote:
> I know that emacs can't possibly know what my intention is, but it
> _can_ know what the appropriate end-of-statement character is for the
> current context.
Sure, theoretically it can, but it doesn't. In c-mode and other
derived modes, you'd set c-electric-flag to get the sort of behaviour
you describe (bound to semi-colons, commas etc, rather than C-S-RET),
but it is down to each mode to provide such a feature unless someone
writes such a generic feature and encourages major mode authors to
support it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 22:11 Insert appropriate line-end character (like ';' for C*) Josh
2008-06-11 4:17 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.13053.1213158202.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-11 19:09 ` Josh
2008-06-11 20:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-11 20:58 ` David Hansen
2008-06-11 22:03 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-06-12 18:30 ` Josh
2008-06-12 19:21 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.13154.1213298609.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-13 18:37 ` Josh
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