Re: Insert appropriate line-end character (like ';' for C*)

[Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>]

() Josh <josh@dydxtech.com>
() Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:09:58 -0700 (PDT)

   I don't know how to programatically
   determine what the correct character is.

That depends on the programming language, which in the
context of Emacs is largely tied to its major mode.

Thus, you might get by w/ something like:

(defvar finish-statement-character
  '((c-mode . ";")
    (c++-mode . ";"))
  "Alist mapping major mode to a \"finish statement\" character.")

(defun finish-statement-and-start-another ()
  (interactive)
  (end-of-line)
  (let ((s (cdr (assq major-mode finish-statement-character))))
    (when s (insert s)))
  (newline-and-indent))

You can then extend finish-statement-character to DTRT, over time.

thi