michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

> Hi guys, long time no see !
>
> Indentation in the METAPOST mode has, IMO, two major flaws :
>
> 1. A bug. If the buffer starts with beginfig, the contents of the figure
> is not properly indented (it stays on the first column).
>
> 2. When wrapping an expression on several lines, the indentation is the
> same for each line, this is bad style : I'd prefer
>
> beginfig(1)
>   draw (0,0)--(1,2)--(10,3)--
>     (0,1)--(10,3);
>   draw (2,2);
> endfig
>
> I propose the following patch which considers that keywords like
> beginfig does not need ending semicolon (it's /quite/ the case).
>
> Tell me if it's worth installing it.

Please consider this extended version. It uses a complete other way to
deal with the indentation which suffers from less flaws. It still has
the following, however, with grouping :

  draw begingraph(3cm,2cm)
      setrange(whatever, 0, whatever, whatever);
    gdraw "data1";
    other-instruction;
  endgraph;

This is not that bad however. I've tested it with the 305 examples of
http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html
with great result.