From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp: Indentation of higher order functions? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:57:25 +0200 Message-ID: <8761gwg522.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410278057 26078 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 15:54:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:54:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs help Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 17:54:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRNk5-0000i9-99 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:54:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRNk4-0001GE-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54110) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRNjm-0001EW-Kx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRNje-0002DM-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp209.alice.it ([82.57.200.105]:12938) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRNje-0002Ck-3J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from zigzag.favinet (95.233.66.80) by smtp209.alice.it (8.6.060.43) id 540DA632004EF843 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 17:53:36 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XRNnT-00067t-WC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:57:36 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Klaus-Dieter Bauer's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:22:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.105 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99737 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable () Klaus-Dieter Bauer () Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:22:55 +0200 [...] chaining higher order functions often becomes highly verbose in terms of whitespace, using either unnecessarily much space vertically or horizontally, subjectively making the code harder to read. [...] =20=20=20 What is the proper way to deal with such situations in emacs lisp? If it is a truly subjective matter, you can change the subject. Personally, sometimes i read source code, type =E2=80=98M-x zone RET=E2=80= =99, wait a bit, and then reassert control, to see what exactly has changed (in my memory / understanding / appreciation). I don't think this is "the proper way", but neither is it cos=C3=AC improper. =2D-=20 Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical) (not (via 'mailing-list))) =3D> nil --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQPI2gACgkQZwMiJEyAdQKCaQCaAv2/ug9aLLLTUJut3nUDeoS/ zBAAoIB9Ai6oSVDA7cIf2noXvleO7UJe =4v33 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--