Re: How to get decent java-script support

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 06/25/2015 06:03 PM, Rasmus wrote:

> Would you mind if I open a bug on that on github?  I don't know if it's a
> d3 thing or something that is generally useful for JS.

If you want to open a bug, do it for js-mode, via M-x report-emacs-bug.

js2-mode intends to reuse its indentation engine.

> It's can get pretty nasty so I don't know if rules can be written.
> E.g.
>
> var myvar = d3.select("#whatever")
>                .somefun(arg)
>                .call(d3.something_else(arg)
>                        .anotherfun(arg));
>
> You'd not actually write code like that of course (the something_else call
> would be factored out to a separate var), so for the majority of code it
> would be enough to just align on the first dot.

Yes, that could be non-trivial. I haven't looked into it much, though.