From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Insert appropriate line-end character (like ';' for C*)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:17:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzg0k3l0.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 333b2bc9-8ad4-4f0e-b508-eb143fd9d2fe@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Josh <josh@dydxtech.com> wrote:
> I think I've seen this behavior in Emacs somewhere, but I can't
> remember where and I'm either using the wrong terms when searching or
> I'm looking in the wrong places because I can't find anything about
> it. What I'm looking for is a emacs command that inserts the
> appropriate end-of-line character based on mode. For example, if
> you're in c-mode or java-mode or whatever it would insert a ';'.
>
> Ideally it would be context aware so that if you were in python-mode
> it would add a ':' where appropriate, but not elsewhere (and even a
> ',' if you're making a list), but that's not essential.
>
> Does this already exist? If not, does anyone have any pointers on how
> I could go about writing it? The only part I can't figure out is how
> to determine what the right character is.
`;' is not a "line-end" character in C but a "end-of-statement"
character. Not even a full featured C parser can know if you want to
continue the statement on the next line or not:
foo = bar ()
&& baz ();
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 22:11 Insert appropriate line-end character (like ';' for C*) Josh
2008-06-11 4:17 ` David Hansen [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.13053.1213158202.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-11 19:09 ` Josh
2008-06-11 20:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-11 20:58 ` David Hansen
2008-06-11 22:03 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-12 18:30 ` Josh
2008-06-12 19:21 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.13154.1213298609.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-13 18:37 ` Josh
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