From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: "Fabián E. Gallina" <fabian@anue.biz>, 18228@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18228: 24.4.50; electrict-indent-mode bad indentation in python-mode
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:05:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E9BCCB.5020304@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzjfaqw4s.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
On 12.08.2014 04:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> But what should electric-indent do than?
>>> No re-indent upon : when it's not 100% sure of the result.
>> Which sums up to switch it off.
>
> Not to switch off electric-indent, no (it's enabled globally).
Python modes should switch it off by default.
Using electric features with Python effectively requires a certain level of experience with Emacs and Python alike.
Nonetheless - nice play.
>
> And presumably the : was made to re-indent because in some/many cases
> there is only 1 correct indentation (and the code is able to find it).
> I don't know if the code is also able to detect when it's correct and
> when it's not,
In Python indent is meaning - at least sometimes.
A reliable electric-indent must know what the programmer wants to write, predict his decision.
There are some special cases, where its possible.
In a lot of other cases not.
Alltogether, when digging in here, you run in a complex matter where artificial intelligence might deliver some progress indeed - which seems fairly out of scope giving the
resources when maintaining/developing Emacs' python-modes.
IMO it would be a waste of time investing here.
but if it is, then we don't need to disable the "reindent
> on :" in all cases.
>
>
> Stefan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-12 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-09 10:00 bug#18228: 24.4.50; electrict-indent-mode bad indentation in python-mode Jorgen Schaefer
2014-08-11 7:11 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-08-11 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-11 17:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-08-12 2:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-12 7:05 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2014-08-12 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-27 19:34 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2014-08-28 6:05 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-08-28 19:00 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2014-09-01 23:11 ` Fabián Ezequiel Gallina
2014-09-01 22:53 ` Fabián Ezequiel Gallina
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