spaces before function calls in perl

spaces before function calls in perl

[Karl Berry]

The standard GNU style is to put spaces before function calls, and
between function arguments, as in:

  foo (1, 2, 3);

Does anyone happen to know of a way to get these spaces inserted
automatically (that is, when typing a "(" or ","), in a perl mode?  I
can imagine some ways to hack it up, but it seemed like it might already
exist.  I just couldn't find it.

Thanks,
Karl

Re: spaces before function calls in perl

[Andreas Röhler]

Am Montag, 10. März 2008 23:00 schrieb Karl Berry:
> The standard GNU style is to put spaces before function calls, and
> between function arguments, as in:
> 
>   foo (1, 2, 3);
> 
> Does anyone happen to know of a way to get these spaces inserted
> automatically (that is, when typing a "(" or ","), in a perl mode?  I
> can imagine some ways to hack it up, but it seemed like it might already
> exist.  I just couldn't find it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Karl
> 
> 
> 

It seems "cperl-mode.el" contains that kind of things:

,----
| (defcustom cperl-electric-lbrace-space nil
|   "*Non-nil (and non-null) means { after $ should be preceded by ` '.
`----

So a hack could start from there.

Andreas Röhler

Re: spaces before function calls in perl

[Johan Bockgård]

karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:

> The standard GNU style is to put spaces before function calls, and
> between function arguments, as in:
>
>   foo (1, 2, 3);
>
> Does anyone happen to know of a way to get these spaces inserted
> automatically (that is, when typing a "(" or ","), in a perl mode?  I
> can imagine some ways to hack it up, but it seemed like it might already
> exist.  I just couldn't find it.

M-( inserts a pair of parenthesis and the space.

-- 
Johan Bockgård