Re: Break code lines fluently

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 12.03.2014 06:42, schrieb Andrey Tykhonov:
>
> Hi all!
>
> When I've used Eclipse I liked its default key binding "Shift-Enter" which
> inserts an empty line (with indentation) after the current line. It is very
> easy to implement such function in Emacs, please read, if you're
> interested: http://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/03/26/smarter-open-line/ .
>
> I used to use this function. It is, as for me, quite handy while browsing
> the code to hit "Shift-Enter" and just insert some piece of code. But what
> I really were missing is having the same line opening command but for
> elisp. It would be better explain by means of example. Let say I have the
> following code:
>
> (defun test ()
>    (let ((test t))
>      (if test
>          (message "True")
>        (mes|sage "False"))))
>
> Point is located in the middle of "message" function. And I would like to
> insert more code to the `let' form (after the `if'). What I was always
> doing in such situations, I did always navigate to the appropriate closing
> bracket (in this case closing bracket of the `if') and hit Enter. (Yes,
> probably there are more better ways to do that. Please share. It is very
> interesting to know). Despite the fact that I quite often investigate emacs
> configurations of others, wiki, documentation and packages only today I
> found the solution to have possibility to break the lines more fluently. So
> having such mentioned code I can execute sequentially the command several
> times and have the following code to be ready to be extended in the right
> place:
>
> (defun test ()
>    (let ((test t))
>      (if test
>          (message "True")
>        (message "False"))
>      |))
>
> (First execution of this command breaks a line for "message", the second
> execution undos this change, the third execution will break a line for
> `if', the fourth undos and fifth will break a line for `let').
>
> The command which I just mentioned is the `smart-return' command from the
> `emacs-smart-return' tiny package which I just recently wrote and which you
> could find at https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-smart-return It is a very
> thin wrapper around `smart-forward' package (Read:
> https://github.com/magnars/smart-forward.el). This is just very initial
> version. Thus any comments, suggestions are highly appreciated.
>
>
> With hope that mentioned functionality will be helpful and useful,
> Andrey.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>

Very interesting, thanks!