Re: How to get decent java-script support

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 06/25/2015 04:23 AM, Rasmus wrote:
> Also, it inserts lots of newlines e.g. for "{}" pairs, which is
> annoying for inline functions (e.g. in .map arguments).  I tried to turn
> off electricity, but that didn't make it stop with the excessive newlines.

This sounds like you're turned on electric-layout-mode, somewhere in 
your config.

> Some question on JS in Emacs:
>
> First, is it possible to get js(2) mode to allow chain-style indentation
> and be less, or more, clever about braces and semicolons?

There are some vars you can customize, but probably not enough.

> Second, can one somehow connect hook into some sort of documentation
> system with java-script?  At least for standard ECMAScript?  Like
> "help(fun)" in Python and C-h for Emacs Lisp etc etc.  At this point, I
> could even live with it "just" opening Mozilla dev. pages in eww or
> Firefox.

Tern supports completion and documentation lookup.

> Third, related to two, can eldoc somehow be taught to work with JS?

That may be a good feature request for tern-mode.

> I tried something called tern since it supposedly offer completion for
> company.  I don't remember why I dropped it...

Try it again, maybe.