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From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indentation in the METAPOST mode.
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:05:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24pj9xk55.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y7gl7c94.fsf@lrde.org

On 2007-08-09 02:00 +0100, Michaël Cadilhac wrote:
> 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).

I haven't used metapost deeply but the proposed change by Michaël is
consistent with examples in:

 http://www.ursoswald.ch/metapost/tutorial.html

HTH,
-- 
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-09  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-09  1:00 Indentation in the METAPOST mode Michaël Cadilhac
2007-08-09  7:05 ` Leo [this message]
2007-08-09  9:50 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-08-09 13:22 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-08-09 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-10 12:49   ` Leo
2007-09-10 17:11   ` Leo
2007-09-10 17:31     ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-10 17:39       ` Leo

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