Re: auto-fill mode in java-mode

[Adam Hardy <emacs@cyberspaceroad.com>]

On 10/16/2003 11:16 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Adam Hardy <emacs@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote on Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:58:08
> +0200:
>>On 10/13/2003 11:10 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>I'm trying to get my java-mode to wrap lines at 75 cols and I've not
>>>>got it working.
> [ .... ]
>>>I'm not sure how useful the auto-filling is in lines other than
>>>comment lines.
> [ .... ]
>>There is only one quibble that I have with the arrangement as I now
>>have it, and the cc-mode help, which is great, is not telling me how or
>>why it happens:
> 
>>   - when auto-fill breaks a line, it ignores my idea of what the 
>>indentation should be. I have to hit tab (or an electric key) for the
>>indentation to sort itself out. I assume my settings are in need of
>>some adjustment, but I don't know which of the following it is:
> [ settings snipped ]
> 
> I don't think there's any code in CC Mode to re-indent auto-filled stuff
> (apart from comments).  It's one of these things that "nobody" will ever
> really need (Hah!), and nobody can be bothered to code.  The variable
> c-ignore-auto-fill seems more like an emergency kludge than a fully
> worked out facility.
> 
> If you think about it, auto-fill with reindentation would be complicated -
> The Java code could be filled, then reindented, causing it to spill over
> the right margin, requiring re-filling, then reindentation, .....  It
> would probably end up looking like an Outlook-Express Usenet posting.  :-(
> 
> You could always reindent the code with C-M-\ or C-M-q or something.  But
> that will ruin the 75 column limit.  :-(  There probably isn't a good
> solution to this (other than to enhance CC Mode).  Sorry.

That's what I'm doing now - it's only 1 key-press. I can definitely live 
with it though.

Interesting to see you are based in Munich. I am too.

I would have posted off-list but your email address doesn't show.

Thanks for the help!

Adam

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