Re: Fwd: Requesting review for change to lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Another way to look at it is that the attribute name is indented
>> 2 spaces with respect to the element name, so things are working
>> as designed.

That's indeed the way I look at it.

> That makes sense, but it seems inconsistent with the behavior of other
> major modes in similar contexts. For example, Lisp indentation is
> relative to the enclosing delimiter rather than the operator name.

It's a philosophical question.  I tend to look at XML's <...> as
a parenthesis-like thingy that encloses a sub-language.

> Another option would be to adopt nxml's solution and add a new variable
> for the attribute indentation relative to the tag delimiter, which has
> the additional advantage of allowing attribute and element indentation
> to be customized independently. It could default to `(1+
> sgml-basic-offset)' to avoid changing the existing behavior.

Yes, that's the main issue: the two are distinct cases that should
have separate indentation rules.
I think we all violently agree on this.


        Stefan