From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
Cc: 25030@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25030: 25.1; Unexpected indentation and syntax-highlighting in `emacs-lisp-mode'
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:53:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efkftyez.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868taptb26.fsf@gmail.com> (Andy Moreton's message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:53:37 +0000")
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Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
> This may not be a bug, but it is certainly a mis-feature.
>
> Warning should be reserved for syntax which may have unintended or
> surprising semantics. Indentation that does not follow a convention is
> not wrong either systacically or semantically.
I'm not convinced by this. Code with unconventional indendation has
surprising syntax to a human reader (or from another perspective, when
I'm writing code which indents strangely, that clues me in that I've
written some unintended syntax), therefore, it seems a warning is
exactly appropriate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-19 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-25 23:12 bug#25030: 25.1; Unexpected indentation and syntax-highlighting in `emacs-lisp-mode' Klaus-Dieter Bauer
2016-11-27 20:38 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-03-14 1:49 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-18 19:53 ` Andy Moreton
2018-03-18 21:32 ` Drew Adams
2018-03-19 23:53 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-03-20 0:23 ` Andy Moreton
2018-03-20 1:35 ` Drew Adams
2018-03-20 2:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-20 12:55 ` Andy Moreton
2018-03-22 2:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2022-02-12 8:54 ` bug#25030: elisp: highlighting of unexpected indentation should use separate face from highlight of error functions Lars Ingebrigtsen
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